Background
Loubet was born on 30 December 1838 in Marsanne, France.
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Loubet was born on 30 December 1838 in Marsanne, France.
He took his doctorate in law in 1863.
Loubet began his professional life as a lawyer and entered politics as a Republican deputy in 1876. Elected senator in 1885, he achieved cabinet rank in 1887 and formed his own ministry for the first time in 1892. Re-elected in 1894, he became president of the Senate in 1896 and president of the Republic in 1899. When it became clear that Captain Dreyfus had been falsely condemned for treason and that revision of his case was called for, the opponents of revision found their chief defense in President Felix Faure, who used all means at his disposal to forestall and impede revision of the military sentence.
Immediately upon Faure's sudden death in 1899, the revisionists in the Chamber and Senate saw their opportunity, elected Loubet as his successor, and with his aid proceeded to put into effect the rehabilitation of the captain. Loubet as president received Tsar Nicholas II during his visit to France in 1901 and in turn visited Russia in 1902; he received Edward VII in 1903 and returned the visit of state the following year - all of which presaged and perhaps contributed to the development of the Triple Entente.
In 1906 Loubet was succeeded in the presidency by Armand Fallieres and remained in retirement in Montelimar, where he had been mayor, until his death.
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On 4 July 1902 President Loubet was elected an honorary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.
President Loubet belonged to the peasant-proprietor class, and had none of the aristocratic proclivities of President Faure. He was noted as a forceful orator.
In 1869 he married Marie-Louise Picard.