Monis
ANTOINE ERNEST, a French statesman, born in 1846 at Châteauneuf-sur-Charente. Elected deputy 1885-1889. Senator and leader of the MONISM Radical Socialist party in 1891. Minister of Justice in 1899-1902. Vice-President of the Senate, and Premier in March, 1911. He was succeeded in 1911 as Premier by Caillaux when the Chamber voted a lack of confidence in the Government. In December, 1913, he became Minister of Marine in the Cabinet of Dumergue. The "Figaro" newspaper charged that in 1911 Caillaux had induced him to hold up the trial of the swindling promoter Rochette until the charge was outlawed and Monis resigned.