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Adolphe Thiers, (born April 18, 1797, Marseille, France—died Sept. 3, 1877, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris), French politician and historian. He went to Paris in 1821 as a journalist and cofounded the opposition newspaper National in 1830. In the July Revolution he supported Louis-Philippe and served as minister of the interior (1832, 1834 ...

Another target was the Paris residence of Adolphe Thiers, leader of the Third Republic. His home was looted and destroyed by an angry mob. Paris Under Attack.

Adolphe Thiers was formally elected the first President of the French Third Republic on August 30, 1871. He was replaced by the more conservative Patrice MacMahon in 1873. In his final years, Thiers became an ally of the republicans against the constitutional monarchists in the Assembly.

Adolphe Thiers meurt le trois septembre 1877 à Saint-Germain-en-Laye d'une crise cardiaque. Né le 15 avril 1797, cet avocat, historien et journaliste, fut le premier président de la troisième République, élu en 1871. Vite passionné par la politique, Adolphe Thiers fut également deux fois président du Conseil sous la Monarchie de ...

Louis Adolphe Thiers. The French journalist, historian, and statesman Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) was the most gifted of the literary statesmen who were an important feature of 19th-century French political life. Born at Marseilles on April 16, 1797, Adolphe Thiers attended the local lycée and studied law at Aix.

14 April 1797. Adolphe Marie Joseph Louis Thiers was born in Marseille. After completing his studies at a secondary school in Marseille and then a university in Aix-en-Provence, where he obtained a degree in Law, he became a lawyer. 1821. He moved to Paris where he tried his hand at journalism in the columns of the newspaper, Le Constitutionnel.