Loubet

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

ÉMILE (lö-bā'), President include: "Aziyadé" (1876); "Rarahu" of the French Republic; born in Mar- (1880), afterward called "The Marriage sanne, Drôme, France, Dec. 31, 1838. of Loti," a romance of Tahiti; "My His father, a simple peasant, provided Brother Yves"; "An Iceland Fisherman" him with, the best education within his (1886); "Madame Chrysanthème" (1887); means. Émile studied law, and began "In Morocco" (1890); "The Romance of practice in Montelimar. The first office a Child" (1890); "A Phantom From the he held was that of mayor of the city; East" (1893); ); "Sailor" (1893); and in 1876 he was elected to a seat in the "Jean Berny, Sailor" (1893); "The Des- Chamber of Deputies; was re-elected in ert" (1895); "Galilée" (1895); "India 1877, and again in 1881, but in 1885 Under the British" (1903); "The Third moved up to the Senate; was Minister Youth of Madame Prune" (1905); "The of Public Works in the short-lived Tirard Death of Phile" (1908); "The Daughter Cabinet, Dec. 12, 1887, to April 3, 1888; of Heaven" (with Judith Gautier, 1913); on the refusal of M. de Freycinet to "On Life's By-Ways" (1914). He re- Vol. VI-Cyc-B reassume the presidency of the Cabinet, was intrusted by President Sadi-Carnot with the task of organizing the ministry with the larger part part of its former constituents, himself assuming the portfolio of the Interior and the presidency of the Cabinet. M. Loubet was elected president of the Senate in 1896, to which position he was re-elected in January, 1898. He succeeded Félix Faure as president, Feb. 18, 1899, and remained in office until 1906, when he was succeeded by Clément Fallières.