Antoine Léon Philippe Blondel was born in Paris on 16 November 1795.

[1] During the July Monarchy he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour on 1 January 1834, officer on 12 March 1837 and commander on 14 April 1844.

[3] On 23 November 1851 François-Xavier Joseph de Casabianca was transferred from the ministry of Agriculture to that of Finance.

[4] In the Second French Empire Blondel was a counselor of state from 1854 until 8 October 1866.

On 5 March 1866 he entered the imperial senate, where he sat until 4 September 1870 among the most devoted supporters of the regime.