title: Cabinet of Léon Faucher
text: # Cabinet of Léon Faucher
  
  The Cabinet of Léon Faucher, in which Léon Faucher was the leading minister, was formed on 10 April 1851 by President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. It followed the Petit ministère of 1851. The cabinet was a compromise between the Parti de l'Ordre and the Bonapartists in the period before the coup d'état of 2 December 1851. The cabinet was replaced by the Last cabinet of the French Second Republic on 26 October 1851.
  
  ## Ministers
  
  The ministers were:
  
  | Portfolio | Holder | Party |
  | - | - | - |
  | Head of the Ministry | Léon Faucher | Party of Order |
  | Minister of Foreign Affairs | Pierre Jules Baroche | Bonapartist |
  | Minister of the Interior | Léon Faucher | Party of Order |
  | Minister of Justice | Eugène Rouher | Bonapartist |
  | Minister of Finance | Achille Fould | Bonapartist |
  | Minister of Public Works | Pierre Magne | Bonapartist |
  | Minister of Trade and Agriculture | Louis Buffet | Party of Order |
  | Minister of Education | Frédéric Dombidau de Crouseilhes | Party of Order |
  | Minister of War | Jacques Louis Randon | Military |
  | Minister of the Navy and Colonies | Prosper de Chasseloup-Laubat | Party of Order |
  