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BRISSON, EUGENE HENRI (1835– )

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BRISSON, See also:EUGENE See also:HENRI (1835– ) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Bourges on the 31st of See also:July 1835. He followed his See also:father's profession of See also:advocate, and having made himself conspicuous in opposition during the last days of the See also:empire, was appointed See also:deputy-See also:mayor of See also:Paris after its overthrow. He was elected to the See also:Assembly on the 8th of See also:February 1871, as a member of the extreme See also:Left. While not approving of the See also:Commune, he was the first to propose See also:amnesty for the condemned (on the 13th of See also:September 1871), but the proposal was voted down. He strongly supported obligatory See also:primary See also:education, and was a See also:firm See also:anti-clerical. He was See also:president of the chamber from 1881—replacing Gambetta—to See also:March 1885, when he became See also:prime See also:minister upon the resignation of Jules See also:Ferry; but he resigned when, after the See also:general elections of that See also:year, he only just obtained a See also:majority for the See also:vote of See also:credit for the See also:Tongking expedition. He remained conspicuous as a public See also:man, took a prominent See also:part in exposing the See also:Panama scandals, was a powerful See also:candidate for the See also:presidency after the See also:murder of President See also:Carnot in 1894, and was again president of the chamber from See also:December 1894 to 1898. In See also:June of the latter year he formed a See also:cabinet when the See also:country was violently excited over the See also:Dreyfus affair; his firmness and honesty increased the respect in which he was already held by See also:good citizens, but a See also:chance vote on an occasion of especial excitement overthrew his See also:ministry in See also:October. As one of the leaders of the radicals he actively supported. the ministries of Waldeck-See also:Rousseau and See also:Combes, especially concerning the See also:laws on the religious orders and the separaticn of See also:church and See also:state. In 1899 he was a candidate for the presidency. In May 1906 he was elected president of the chamber of deputies by 500 out of 581 votes.

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