Gustave Rouland
French lawyer and politician
Gustave Rouland (3 February 1806 – 12 December 1878) was a French lawyer and politician. During the Second French Empire he was Minister of Education and Religious Affairs from 1856 to 1863. In this role he undertook reforms to curb the influence of the church. He was later President of the Conseil d'Etat and then governor of the Banque de France from 1864 to 1878, with one short interruption.
Early years
Gustave Rouland was born in Yvetot, Seine-Inférieure, France, on 3 December 1806.
He was the grandson of a farmer and son of an attorney.
He attended Rouen College, where he was an exceptional student, and then studied law at the Faculty of Law of Paris. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, and entered the judiciary as a magistrate in the court of Les Andelys.
In 1828 in Dieppe he married Julie Félicité Cappon (born 1804), daughter of a clerk of Dieppe.
Rouland had a brilliant judicial career under the July Monarchy.
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