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When was Guizot France's minister of public instruction?

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As minister of public instruction (1832-37), Guizot introduced (1833) a new system of primary education. Turning more and more to conservatism, he became (1840) the chief power in the ministry nominally headed by Soult, who had displaced the more liberal Thiers as premier.

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