Minister Capet

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Jean Jacque Dimin, but better known as Minister Capet, or monsieur Capet.
Another of the 1870 generation. His parents, Jacque Jean Dimin and Fleur Dimin were just the avarage French civilians, grape-wine farmers in the little village of Ravière.
A perfect normal youth as read in most youth books, little adventures, big dissapointments, great achivements. In short, untill he announced the intention to go to Paris to study he was just one of the family Dimin.

His parents accepted this and by scraping by Jean Jacque could get the higher education he wanted. During these 5 years Jean met a rare woman, one that could say, and prove her ancestry was from higher nobility before the revolution. Mademoiselle Rabutin teached him the ways of the world, all around. And instilled the young handsome farmers son with a fear and admiration of the nobility.  But the vageries of life seperated the pair.

The most direct result is that he officialy has his name changed in Capet the moment he got accepted by the Liberal party.
This is the name under wich Louis XVI was sentenced to the Guiliotine. But he never explained that to the bureaucrats who accepted that namechange. The official explanation is that he didn't want to burden his parents under the scrutiny of the press.

A strange combination of very liberal political viewpoints and a yearning for a real monarchy make this man the man with the most years as a minister. Very competent, at least in easing his way trough the political paths and gaining covert support for a resurgence of the monarchy.
His most valable point is the example of Palpaté. A premier elected by the people, but the blackest of souls.