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FAURE, FRANCOIS FELIX (1841–18gg)

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FAURE, See also:FRANCOIS See also:FELIX (1841–18gg) , See also:President of the See also:French See also:Republic, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 3oth of See also:January 1841, being the son of a small See also:furniture maker. Having started as a See also:tanner and See also:merchant at See also:Havre, he acquired considerable See also:wealth, was elected to the See also:National See also:Assembly on the 21st of See also:August 1881, and took his seat as a member of the See also:Left, interesting himself chiefly in matters concerning See also:economics, See also:railways and the See also:navy. In See also:November 1882 he became under-secretary for the colonies in M. See also:Ferry's See also:ministry, and retained the See also:post till 1885. He held the same post in M. See also:Tirard's ministry in 1888, and in 1893 was made See also:vice-president of the chamber. In 1894 he obtained See also:cabinet See also:rank as See also:minister of marine in the See also:administration of M. See also:Dupuy. In the January following he was unexpectedly elected president of the Republic upon the resignation of M. Casimir-See also:Perier. The See also:principal cause of his See also:elevation was the determination of the various sections of the moderate republican party to exclude M. See also:Brisson, who had had a See also:majority of votes on the first See also:ballot, but had failed to obtain an See also:absolute majority.

To accomplish this end it was necessary to unite among them-selves, and See also:

union could only be secured by the nomination of some one who offended nobody. M. Faure answered perfectly to this description. His See also:fine presence and his tact on ceremonial occasions rendered the See also:state some service when in 1896 he received the See also:Tsar of See also:Russia at Paris, and in 1897 returned his visit, after which See also:meeting the momentous Franco-See also:Russian See also:alliance was publicly announced. The latter days of M. Faure's See also:presidency were embittered by the See also:Dreyfus affair, which he was determined to regard as See also:chose jugee. But at a See also:critical moment in the proceedings his See also:death occurred suddenly, from See also:apoplexy, on the 16th of See also:February 1899. With all his faults, and in spite of no slight amount of See also:personal vanity, President Faure was a shrewd See also:political observer and a See also:good See also:man of business. After his death, some alleged extracts from his private See also:journals, dealing with French policy, were published in the Paris See also:press. See E. Maillard, Le President F. Faure (Paris, 1897) ; P.

Bluysen, Felix Faure intime (1898) ; and F. See also:

Martin-Ginouvier, F. Faure devant l'histoire (1895).

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