Which position did Jules Armand Dufaure hold from Feb 1871 to May 1873?
Jules Armand Dufaure Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure ( ; 4 December 1798 – 28 June 1881 ) was a French statesman . Biography . Dufaure was born at Saujon , Charente-Maritime , and began his career as an advocate at Bordeaux , where he won a great reputation by his oratorical gifts . He abandoned law for politics and , in 1834 , was elected deputy . In 1839 , he became minister of public works in the ministry of Jean-de-Dieu Soult , and succeeded in freeing railway construction in France from the obstacles which until then had hampered it . Losing office in 1840 , Dufaure became one of the leaders of the Opposition , and on the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 , he accepted the Republic and joined the party of moderate republicans . On 13 October , he became minister of the interior under Louis-Eugène Cavaignac , but retired on the latters defeat in the presidential election . During the Second French Empire , Dufaure abstained from public life , and practised at the Paris bar with such success that he was elected bâtonnier in 1862 . In 1863 , he succeeded to Étienne-Denis Pasquiers seat in the Académie française . In 1871 , he became a member of the Assembly , and proposed Adolphe Thiers as President of the Republic . Dufaure became the minister of justice as chief of the party of the left-centre , and his tenure of office was distinguished by the passage of the jury-law . In 1873 , he fell with Thiers , but in 1875 resumed his former post under Louis Buffet , whom he succeeded on 9 March 1876 , the first to become president of the council ( his predecessors wore the title of vice-presidents of the council ) . In the same year , he was elected a life senator . On 12 December , he withdrew from the ministry owing to the attacks of the republicans of the left in the chamber and of the conservatives in the senate . After the conservatives defeat on 16 May , he returned to power on 24 December 1877 . Early in 1879 , Dufaure took part in compelling the resignation of Patrice MacMahon , duc de Magenta , but immediately afterwards ( 1 February ) , worn out by opposition , he retired . As Prime Minister , he served as the Acting President of the Republic on 30 January 1879 . See G Picot , M . Dufaure , sa vie et ses discours ( Paris , 1883 ) . Dufaures First Government , 19 February 1871 – 18 May 1873 . - Jules Dufaure – President of the Council and Minister of Justice - Jules Favre – Minister of Foreign Affairs - Adolphe Charles Le Flô – Minister of War - Ernest Picard – Minister of the Interior - Louis Buffet – Minister of Finance - Louis Marie Alexis Pothuau – Minister of Marine and Colonies - Jules Simon – Minister of Public Instruction , Fine Arts , and Worship - Charles de Larcy – Minister of Public Works - Félix Lambrecht – Minister of Agriculture and Commerce Changes - 25 February 1871 – Augustin Pouyer-Quertier succeeds Buffet as Minister of Finance . - 5 June 1871 – Ernest Courtot de Cissey succeeds Le Flô as Minister of War . Félix Lambrecht succeeds Picard as Minister of the Interior . Victor Lefranc succeeds Lambrecht as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce . - 2 August 1871 – The Comte de Rémusat , succeeds Favre as Minister of Foreign Affairs - 11 October 1871 – Auguste Casimir-Perier succeeds Lambrecht as Minister of the Interior - 6 February 1872 – Victor Lefranc succeeds Casimir-Perier as Minister of the Interior . Eugène de Goulard succeeds Lefranc as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce . - 23 April 1872 – Eugène de Goulard succeeds Pouyer-Quertier as Minister of Finance . Pierre Teisserenc de Bort succeeds Goulard as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce . - 7 December 1872 – Eugène de Goulard succeeds Lefranc as Minister of the Interior . Léon Say succeeds Goulard as Minister of Finance . Oscar Bardi de Fourtou succeeds Larcy as Minister of Public Works . Dufaures Second Government , 18–25 May 1873 . - Jules Dufaure – President of the Council and Minister of Justice - Comte de Rémusat – Minister of Foreign Affairs - Ernest Courtot de Cissey – Minister of War - Auguste Casimir-Perier – Minister of the Interior - Léon Say – Minister of Finance - Louis Marie Alexis Pothuau – Minister of Marine and Colonies - William Henry Waddington – Minister of Public Instruction - Oscar Bardi de Fourtou – Minister of Worship - René Bérenger – Minister of Public Works - Pierre Teisserenc de Bort – Minister of Agriculture and Commerce Dufaures Third Government , 23 February – 9 March 1876 . - Jules Dufaure – President of the Council and Minister of the Interior and of Justice - Louis Decazes – Minister of Foreign Affairs - Ernest Courtot de Cissey – Minister of War - Eugène Caillaux – Minister of Finance and Public Works - Louis Raymond de Montaignac de Chauvannce – Minister of Marine and Colonies - Henri Wallon – Minister of Public Instruction , Fine Arts , and Worship - Vicomte de Meaux – Minister of Agriculture and Commerce Dufaures Fourth Government , 9 March – 12 December 1876 . - Jules Dufaure – President of the Council and Minister of Justice - Louis Decazes – Minister of Foreign Affairs - Ernest Courtot de Cissey – Minister of War - Amable Ricard – Minister of the Interior - Léon Say – Minister of Finance - Martin Fourichon – Minister of Marine - William Henry Waddington – Minister of Public Instruction - Albert Christophle – Minister of Public Works - Pierre Teisserenc de Bort – Minister of Agriculture and Commerce Changes - 11 May 1876 – Émile de Marcère succeeds Ricard as Minister of the Interior . - 15 August 1876 – Jean Auguste Berthaud succeeds Courtot de Cissey as Minister of War . Dufaures Fifth Government , 13 December 1877 – 4 February 1879 . - Jules Dufaure – President of the Council and Minister of Justice - William Henry Waddington – Minister of Foreign Affairs - Jean-Louis Borel – Minister of War - Émile de Marcère – Minister of the Interior - Léon Say – Minister of Finance - Louis Marie Alexis Pothuau – Minister of Marine and Colonies - Agénor Bardoux – Minister of Public Instruction , Fine Arts , and Worship - Charles de Freycinet – Minister of Public Works - Pierre Teisserenc de Bort – Minister of Agriculture and Commerce Changes - 16 May 1878 – Henri François Xavier Gresley succeeds Borel as Minister of War .