Life
Victor Lefranc was born at Garlin (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). He studied in law and became lawyer.
Moderated republican, he was opponent with Louis-Philippe. After the revolution of February 1848, he was elected as deputy in the constituent Assembly. The Coup d'état stopped his public life in 1851. During the Second Empire, he was famous at the Parisian bar. He failed in 1863 and in 1869 elections in the Landes against the official candidate of the second Empire.
After the revolution of September 4, 1870, Victor Lefranc was elected at the French National Assembly. He was the rapporteur of the commission which entrusts to Thiers the executive power, then of the commission charged to reopen the negotiations with Prussia for peace.
Victor Lefranc was named Minister of Agriculture and Trade on June 9, 1871, in the government of Jules Armand Dufaure. He negotiated in London with the ministry Gladstone the revision of the bilateral commercial treaties.
Victor Lefranc became Interior Minister on February 6, 1872. He restricted some liberties. On November 30, 1872, the monarchist majority voted against the policy of the Interior Minister, who gave his resignation at once.
He became unremovable senator in 1881, and died in Saint-Sever, September 12, 1883.
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