François Guizot, made minister of the interior…

François Guizot, made minister of the interior in August, resigns in November.

He now joins the ranks of the conservatives, and for the next eighteen years is to be a determined foe of democracy, the unyielding champion of "a monarchy limited by a limited number of bourgeois."

Adolphe Thiers, credited with "overcoming the scruples of Louis Philippe," now ranks as one of the Radical supporters of the new dynasty, in opposition to the party of which his rival Guizot is the chief literary man, and Guizot's patron, the duc de Broglie, the main pillar, as prime minister.

At first Thiers, though elected deputy for Aix, receives only subordinate posts in the ministry of finance.