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.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote this in 1921 while Loubet was still living in retirement at Montélimar; he died there on 20 December 1929, aged 90. The entry's bare list of offices passes over what his 1899-1906 presidency is remembered for today: the pardon of Alfred Dreyfus in September 1899, the Entente Cordiale with Britain sealed by his 1903 state visit to London, and the 1905 law separating church and state, which he signed. He also completed his full seven-year term and handed power peacefully to Fallieres, unlike his predecessor Felix Faure, who died in office. Readers should note that the Collier's text as printed here is garbled: the columns of the Loubet article and a neighbouring article on the novelist Pierre Loti have been interleaved, so the list of works beginning "Aziyade" belongs to Loti, not to Loubet.
Written for this edition, 2026.