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See also:DELCASSE, See also:THEOPHILE (1852– ) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at Pamiers, in the See also:department of See also:Ariege, on the 1st of See also:March 1852. He wrote articles on See also:foreign affairs for the Republique
francaise and See also:Paris, and in 1888 was elected conseiller See also:general of his native department, See also:standing as " un See also:disciple fidele de See also:Gambetta." In the following See also:year he entered the chamber as See also:deputy for See also:Foix. He was appointed under-secretary for the colonies in the second See also:Ribot See also:cabinet (See also:January to See also:April 1893), and retained his See also:post in the See also:Dupuy cabinet till its fall in See also:December 1893. It was largely owing to his efforts that the French colonial See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was made a See also:separate department with a See also:minister at its See also:head, and to this office he was appointed in the second Dupuy cabinet (May 1894 to January 1895). He gave a See also:great impetus to French colonial enterprise, especially in See also:West See also:Africa, where he organized the newly acquired h See also:colony of See also:Dahomey, and despatched the See also:Liotard See also:mission to the Upper See also:Ubangi. While in opposition he devoted See also:special See also:attention to See also:naval affairs, and in speeches that attracted much See also:notice declared that the See also:function of the French See also:navy was to secure and develop colonial enterprise, deprecated all attempts to See also:rival the See also:British See also:fleet, and advocated the construction of See also:commerce destroyers as See also:France's best reply to See also:England. On the formation of the second See also:Brisson cabinet in See also:June 1898 he succeeded M. See also:Hanotaux at the foreign office, and retained that post under the subsequent premierships of MM. Dupuy, Waldeck-See also:Rousseau, See also:Combes and See also:Rouvier. In 1898 he had to See also:deal with the delicate situation caused by See also:Captain Marchand's occupation of See also:Fashoda, for which, as he admitted in a speech in the chamber on the 23rd of January 1899, he accepted full responsibility, since it arose directly out of the Liotard expedition, which he had himself organized while minister for the colonies; and in March 1899 he concluded an agreement with Great See also:Britain by, which the difficulty was finally adjusted, and France consolidated her vast colonial See also:empire in See also:North-West Africa. In the same year he acted as mediator between the See also:United States and See also:Spain, and brought the See also:peace negotiations to a successful conclusion. He introduced greater cordiality into the relations of France with See also:Italy: at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he adhered firmly to the See also:alliance with See also:Russia, and in See also:August 1899 made a visit to St See also:Petersburg, which he repeated in April 1901. In June rgoo he made an arrangement with Spain, fixing the See also:long-disputed boundaries of the French and See also:Spanish possessions in West Africa. Finally he concluded with England the important Agreements of 1904 covering colonial and other questions which had long been a See also:matter of dispute, especially concerning See also:Egypt, See also:Newfoundland and See also:Morocco. Suspicion of the growing entente between France and England soon arose on the See also:part of See also:Germany, and.in 1905 See also:German assertiveness was shown in a crisis which was forced on in the matter of the French activity in Morocco (q.v.), in which the handling of
French policy by M. Delcasse personally was a sore point with Germany. The situation became acute in April, and was only relieved by M. Delcasse's resignation of office. He retired into private See also:life, but in 1908 was warmly welcomed on a visit to England, where the closest relations now existed with France.
End of Article: DELCASSE, THEOPHILE (1852– )
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