Frederic Alfred Pierre Falloux, viscount de, a French author and statesman, born in Angers, May 7, 1811. He first made himself known by a history of Louis XVI. (Paris, 1840; 2d ed., 1843), and by his Histoire de St. Fie V. (2 vols., 1844; 3d ed., 1859), the former of which showed his legitimist, the latter his Catholic sentiments. In 1846 he was elected a member of the chamber of deputies, where he took his seat among the legitimists. After the revolution of February, 1848, Falloux was returned to the constituent assembly, where he boldly displayed his anti-revolutionary views. Appointed reporter in the question of national workshops, he moved the dissolution of the chamber, which was the signal for the uprising of the red republicans in June. On Dec. 20, 1848, he was made by Louis Napoleon minister of worship and public instruction, which post he resigned in October, 1849, in consequence of having been censured for submitting to the legislative assembly an organic measure relating to education without having brought it before the notice of the council of state.

He then took his place in the legislative assembly.

J After the coup d'etat of Dec. 2, 1851, he retired from public life. In 1855 he became assistant editor of the Correspondant, the leading Catholic review, and took an active part in the violent controversy which that journal, in the name of the moderate section of the Catholic party, sustained against the Univers newspaper. Falloux published on behalf of his friends the pamphlet Le parti catholique. He also took an active part in the Catholic-congress held at Mechlin in 1867, and with Mgr. Dupanloup supported the doctrines of the syllabus. Among his later publications are: Mme. Stretchine, sa vie et ses centres (2 vols., 1859); La contention du 15 septembre (1864); and Lettres inedites de Mme. Suetchine (1866).