The New International Encyclopædia/Audiffret-Pasquier, Edme Armard Gaston, duc d'

AUDIFFRET-PASQUIER, o'de'frS'pas'kyii', Edme Armard Gaston, Duc d' (1823—). A French statesman, born in Paris. In 1862 he inherited the title of Duc de Pasquier from a granduncle. During the reign of Napoleon III. he was identified with the Orleanist opposition, and under the presidency of Thiers was one of the Moderate Conservative Party. In 1875 he was chosen president of the National Assembly, which he had entered in 1871, and though he had been an avowed supporter of the Bourbon restoration, he then accepted the Republic. He was the first life-Senator elected by the Assembly (1875); was president of the Senate from 1876-79, and in 1878 was chosen to the French Academy.