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POINCARE, RAYMOND (186o— )

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POINCARE, See also:RAYMOND (186o— ) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Bar-le-duc on the loth of See also:August i86o, the son of See also:Nicolas Antoinin Helene Poincare, a distinguished See also:civil servant and meteorologist. Educated at the university of See also:Paris, Raymond was called to the Paris bar, and was for some See also:time See also:law editor of the See also:Voltaire. He had served for over a See also:year in the See also:department of See also:agriculture when in 1887 he was elected See also:deputy for the See also:Meuse. He made a See also:great reputation in the Chamber as an economist, and sat on the See also:budget commissions of r89o–1891 and 1892. He was See also:minister of See also:education, See also:fine arts and See also:religion in the first See also:cabinet (See also:April–Nov. 1893) of See also:Charles See also:Dupuy, and minister of See also:finance in the second and third (May 1894–See also:Jan. 1895). In the succeeding See also:Ribot cabinet Poincare became minister of public instruction. Although he was excluded from the See also:Radical cabinet which followed, the revised See also:scheme of See also:death duties proposed by the new See also:ministry was based upon his proposals of the previous year. He became See also:vice-See also:president of the chamber in the autumn of 1895, and in spite of the See also:bitter hostility of the Radicals retained his position in 1896 and 1897. In 1go6 he returned to the ministry of finance in the See also:short-lived Sarrien ministry. Poincare had retained his practice at the bar during his See also:political career, and he published several volumes of essays on See also:literary and political subjects.

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brother, Lucien Poincare (b. 1862), famous as a physicist, became inspector-See also:general of public instruction in 1902. He is the author of La Physique See also:modern (1906) and L'Electricite (1907). Jules See also:Henri Poincare (b. 1854), also a distinguished physicist, belongs to another See also:branch of the same See also:family.

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