R�musat, Charles Fran�ois Marie, Comte de 1797-1875
French writer

He was born in Paris, son of the Comte de R�musat (1762-1823), who was chamberlain to Napoleon I. As a young man he developed liberal ideas, and took to journalism. He signed the journalists' protest which brought about the July Revolution (1830), was elected deputy for Toulouse, and became Under-Secretary of State for the Interior (1836) and Minister of the Interior (1840). He was exiled after the coup d'�tat of 1848, and devoted himself to literary and philosophical studies, until in 1871 Thiers called him to the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, which he retained until 1873. Among his writings are Essais de philosophie (1842, 'Essays in Philosophy'), L'Angleterre au XVIIIe si�cle (1856, 'Eighteenth-century England'), Histoire de la philosophie en Angleterre de Bacon � Locke (1875, 'History of English Philosophy from Bacon to Locke'), and two philosophical dramas, Ab�lard (1877) and La Saint Barth�lemy (1878, 'Saint Bartholomew's Day').