next year he joined the Reform movement. In February 1848 he was a signatory of the proposal to impeach the Guizot ministry. Second Republic Maleville was elected to the Constituent Assembly on 23 April 1848, representing Tarn-et-Garonne. He sat on the right, and soon became a member of the committee of the Rue de Poitiers. On 20 December 1848 he was made Minister of the Interior by the President, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. The appointment was short-lived. He disagreed with the President on several important points, and resigned his portfolio on 29 December 1848. He was replaced by Léon Faucher. Maleville was not reelected to his department in the Legislative Assembly elections of 13 and 14 May 1849. He was returned as deputy for the Seine in a by-election on 8 July 1849. He continued to belong to the majority opposed to republican institutions, but he strongly opposed the coup d'etat of 2 December 1851. Third Republic Maleville returned to private life during the Second French Empire (1852–1870). After the fall of the Empire during the Franco-Prussian War, he ran successfully for election to the National Assembly on 8 February 1871. He was elected for two departments, Landes and Tarn-et-Garonne, and chose to represent Tarn-et-Garonne. He joined the Centre gauche parliamentary group and supported the policy of Thiers, his personal friend. He was elected vice-president of the Assembly. Maleville was the third senator for life elected on 10 December 1875. He did not play an active role in the Senate. He died on 28 March 1879 at Montauban, aged 75. He married Jeanne Marie Sicard-Duval, from Mauritius, on 21 April 1847. They had one daughter, who married Henri Courtois, and whose children in 1905 obtained the right to call themselves Coutois de Maleville. References Citations Sources 1803 births 1879 deaths People from Montauban Politicians from Occitania (administrative region) Party of Order politicians French interior ministers Members of the 3rd Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy 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 National Assembly (1871) French life senators Officiers of the Légion d'honneur