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Three members of the government Cremieux, Fourichon, and Glais-Bizoin were despatched before the entire blockade of the city had been effected, to Tours, to maintain communication with the provinces.
Vice-Admiral Fourichon was appointed Minister of Marine; Magnin, an iron-master, became Minister of Commerce and Agriculture; Frederic Dorian, another iron-master, took the department of Public Works; Count Emile de Keratry acted as Prefect of Police, and Etienne Arago, in the earlier days, as Mayor of Paris. The new Government was fully installed by Tuesday, September 6.
That same day Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador, took his departure from Paris, proceeding by devious ways to Tours, whither, a couple of days previously, three delegates of the National Defence two septuagenarians and one sexagenarian, Cremieux, Glais-Bizoin, and Fourichon had repaired in order to take over the general government of France.
However, Glais-Bizoin followed Cremieux to Tours, where it had been arranged that the Government Delegation should instal itself, and he was accompanied by Admiral Fourichon, the Minister of Marine.
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