Legislative Assembly elections of 13 and 14 May 1849, and he was not reelected. He had retired to the country when he learned on 2 June 1849 that he had been appointed Minister of Commerce and Agriculture in the cabinet headed by Odilon Barrot. In by-elections on 8 July 1849 Lanjuinais ran as Conservative candidate and was elected to the Assembly for the Seine. As Minister of Commerce he was involved in suppressing the system of quarantines of the Levant. He wanted to end the monopoly of the Parisian bakery, but this decision was not confirmed by his successor. For three months Lanjuinais was also acting Minister of Public Education and Worship. The cabinet to which he belonged was dissolved on 31 October 1849, and he refused to participate in its successor. He did participate in several important committees of the Assembly. Second Empire Lanjuinais was opposed to the coup of 2 December 1851, and was briefly detained at the Château de Vincennes. He returned to private life, and in 1857 refused to be a candidate to the Legislative body. On 1 June 1863 he was elected as an independent candidate for the second district of Loire-Inférieure. He sat with the Orleanist third party. Victor Ambrose Lanjuinais died in Paris on 1 January 1869. He was aged 66. Writings Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages du comte de Lanjuinais (Essay on the life and works of his father) (1832) New research on the question of gold (1863), Revue des deux Mondes References Notes Citations Sources 1802 births 1869 deaths Politicians from Paris Viscounts of France Party of Order politicians French Ministers of Agriculture Members of the 4th Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy Members of the 5th Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy Members of the 6th Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy Members of the 7th Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy Members of the 1848 Constituent Assembly Members of the National Legislative Assembly of the French Second Republic Members of the 3rd Corps législatif of the Second French Empire Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery