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DUPUY, CHARLES ALEXANDRE (1851– )

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DUPUY, See also:CHARLES See also:ALEXANDRE (1851– ) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at Le See also:Puy on the 5th of See also:November 1851, his See also:father being a See also:local See also:official. After being a See also:professor of See also:philosophy in the provinces, he was appointed a school inspector, and thus obtained a See also:practical acquaintance with the needs of French See also:education. In 1885 he was elected to the chamber as an Opportunist Republican. After acting as " reporter " of the See also:budget for public instruction, he became See also:minister for the See also:department, in M. See also:Ribot's See also:cabinet, in 1892. In See also:April 1893 he formed a See also:ministry himself, taking as his See also:office that of minister of the interior, but resigned at the end of November, and on 5th See also:December was elected See also:president of the chamber. During his first See also:week of office an anarchist, Valliant, who had managed to gain See also:admission to the chamber, threw a See also:bomb at the president, and M. Dupuy's collected bearing, and his historic words: " Messieurs, la seance continue," gained him much See also:credit. In May 1894 he again became premier and minister of the interior; and he was by President See also:Carnot's See also:side when the latter was stabbed to See also:death at See also:Lyons in See also:June. He then became a See also:candidate for the See also:presidency, but was defeated, and his cabinet remained in office till See also:January 1895; it was under it that See also:Captain See also:Dreyfus was arrested and condemned (23rd of December 1894). The progress of l'a/Taire then See also:cast its See also:shadow upon M. Dupuy, along with other French " ministrables," but in November 1898, after M.

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Brisson had at last remitted the See also:case to the See also:judgment of the See also:court of cassation, he formed a cabinet of Republican concentration. In view of the apparent likelihood that the See also:judges of the criminal See also:division of the court of cassation—who formed the See also:ordinary tribunal for such an See also:appeal-would decide in favour of Dreyfus, it was thought that M. Dupuy's new cabinet would be strong enough to reconcile public See also:opinion to such a result; but, to the surprise of outside observers, it was no sooner discovered how the judges were likely to decide than M. Dupuy proposed a See also:law in the chamber transferring the decision to a full court of all the divisions of the court of cassation. This arbitrary See also:act, though adopted by the chamber, was at once construed as a fresh See also:attempt to maintain the judgment of the first court-See also:martial; but in the See also:interval President See also:Faure (an See also:anti-Dreyfusard) died, and the See also:accession of M. See also:Loubet doubtless had some effect in quieting public feeling. At all events, the whole court of cassation decided that there must be a new court-martial, and M. Dupuy at once resigned (June 1899). In June 1900 he was elected senator for the Haute See also:Saone.

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