Petit ministère of 1851

The Petit ministère of 1851 governed France from 24 January 1851 to 10 April 1851 during the French Second Republic, replacing the Cabinet of Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul. It was a compromise cabinet formed by President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte after the National Legislative Assembly had refused to accept a cabinet dominated by Bonapartists, and had no president.^[1] It was replaced by the Cabinet of Léon Faucher on 10 April 1851.^[2] The ministers were:^[3]

Portfolio	Holder		Party
Head of the Ministry		Eugène Rouher	Bonapartist
Minister of Foreign Affairs		Anatole Brénier de Renaudière	Independent
Minister of the Interior		Claude-Marius Vaïsse	Independent
Minister of Justice		Ernest de Royer	Bonapartist
Minister of Finance		Charles Le Bègue de Germiny	Independent
Minister of Public Works		Pierre Magne	Bonapartist
Minister of Trade and Agriculture		Eugène Schneider	Independent
Minister of Education		Charles Giraud	Bonapartist
Minister of War		Jacques Louis Randon	Military
Minister of the Navy and Colonies		Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant	Military

Petit ministère of 1851
France Cabinet of France
Date formed	24 January 1851
Date dissolved	10 April 1851
People and organisations
Head of state	Louis Napoleon
History
Predecessor	Cabinet of Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul
Successor	Cabinet of Léon Faucher