Jules Bastide

Bastide studied law for a time, and was afterward engaged in business as a timber merchant.

In 1821, he became a member of the French Charbonnerie, modelled after the Italian revolutionary organization Carbonari, and took a prominent part in the Revolution of 1830.

For his part in the Paris Uprising of 1832 on the occasion of the funeral of General Maximilien Lamarque, Bastide was sentenced to death, but escaped to London.

In 1847, he founded the Revue Nationale as a collaborative venture with Philippe Buchez, whose ideas had thoroughly infected Bastide.

At the close of 1848 he resigned his portfolio, and, after the December 1851 coup d'état retired into private life.