Background
Émile Loubet was born on December 30, 1838, Marsanne, France, the son of a peasant proprietor at Marsanne (Drome), who was more than once mayor of Marsanne. .
(Excerpt from La Politique Budgétaire en Europe, les Tenda...)
Excerpt from La Politique Budgétaire en Europe, les Tendances Actuelles: Conférences Organisées A la Société des Anciens Élèves de l'École Libre des Sciences Politiques Ainsi les statistiques nous montrent que la population de notre continent s'est élevée de 312 à 392 millions d'habitants de 1875 à 1900. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0332191346/?tag=2022091-20
politician president prime minister
Émile Loubet was born on December 30, 1838, Marsanne, France, the son of a peasant proprietor at Marsanne (Drome), who was more than once mayor of Marsanne. .
He studied law and in 1876 entered the Chamber of Deputies the Republican cause, defending freedom and secular education.
A lawyer, Loubet entered the Chamber of Deputies in 1876, championing the republican cause and working especially for free, obligatory, and secular primary education. He entered the Senate in 1885 and from December 1887 to March 1888 was minister of public works. His tenure as premier and minister of the interior, beginning in February 1892, ended in November as a result of the financial scandal following the collapse of the French Panama canal company, the Campagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique, though for a short time he continued to serve as minister of the interior under his successor.
In 1899 Loubet became president of the republic. Known to favour settlement of the case of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer whose conviction for treason on questionable evidence in 1894 had divided French society, he summoned René Waldeck-Rousseau to form a ministry to resolve the Dreyfus affair and appealed to all republicans to rally behind it. Dreyfus, brought back from the penal colony of Devil’s Island (off the coast of South America), was again convicted by a court-martial; but Loubet, by remitting the sentence and canceling the order for deportation, signaled the victory of republican forces against those of the royalists, the Roman Catholic clergy, and the army.
Loubet’s presidency also marked the complete separation between the French state and the church. In 1905, amid violent controversy, any relationship of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as that of the Protestant and Jewish faiths, to the state was dissolved.
Active also in foreign relations, Loubet visited foreign leaders, including Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII of Great Britain, and Victor Emmanuel III of Italy—a visit that infuriated Pope Pius X. Loubet smoothed relations with England in April 1904 by signing the Anglo-French entente (Entente Cordiale), which settled their colonial differences.
(Excerpt from La Politique Budgétaire en Europe, les Tenda...)
He married Marie Louis Picard in 1869.