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Émile Loubet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (849 words) |
 | Loubet held the portfolio of the interior with the premiership, and had to deal with the anarchist crimes of that year and with the great strike of Carmaux, in which he acted as arbitrator, giving a decision regarded in many quarters as too favourable to the strikers. |
| By the efforts of Loubet and Waldeck-Rousseau the Dreyfus affair was settled, when Loubet, acting on the advice of General Galliffet, minister of war, remitted the ten years' imprisonment to which Dreyfus was condemned at Rennes. |
| Loubet's presidency saw an acute stage of the clerical question, which was attacked by Waldeck-Rousseau and in still more drastic fashion by the Combes ministry. |
| AllRefer.com - Emile FranCois Loubet (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (262 words) |
| Favoring revision in the Dreyfus Affair, Loubet pardoned Alfred Dreyfus in 1899; in foreign affairs his reception of King Edward VII of Great Britain symbolized the growing rapprochement between the two countries. |
| During his presidency premiers RenE Waldeck-Rousseau and Emile Combes secured the limiting of Church privilege, culminating (1905) in the separation of Church and state in France. |
| Loubet retired in 1906 and was succeeded by Armand FalliEres. |
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