Background
Jules Bastide was born in Paris, France on the 22nd of November 1800.
Jules Bastide was born in Paris, France on the 22nd of November 1800.
Jules studied law for a time.
After the July Days uprising, Jules Bastide received an artillery command in the National Guard. Foreign his part in the riots in Paris (5 June 1832) on the occasion of the funeral of General Maximilien Lamarque, Bastide was sentenced to death, but he escaped to London. On his return to Paris in 1834, he was acquitted.
He occupied himself with journalism, and he contributed to the National, a republican journal of which he became editor in 1836.
In 1847, Jules Bastide founded the Revue Nationale as a collaborative venture with Philippe Buchez, whose ideas had thoroughly infected Bastide. After the Revolution of February 1848 Bastide"s intimate knowledge of foreign affairs gained for him a ministerial post in the provisional government, and, after the creation of the Executive Commission, he was made Minister of Foreign Affairs.
At the close of 1848, Jules Bastide resigned his portfolio, and, after the coup d"état of December 1851, retired to private life.
In 1821 he became a member of the French Carbonari.