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[JUSTIN LOUIS] SMILE COMBES (1835– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 752 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUSTIN See also:LOUIS] SMILE See also:COMBES (1835– )  , See also:French states-See also:man, was See also:born at Roquecourbe in the See also:department of the See also:Tarn . He studied for the priesthood, but abandoned the See also:idea before ordination, and took the diploma of See also:doctor of letters ,1860), Then he studied See also:medicine, taking his degree in 1867, and setting up in practice at Pons in See also:Charente-Inferieure . In 1881 he presented himself as a See also:political See also:candidate for See also:Saintes, but was defeated . In 1885 he was elected to the See also:senate by the department of Charente-Inferieure . He sat in the Democratic See also:left, and was elected See also:vice-See also:president in 1893 and 1894 . The reports which he See also:drew up upon educational questions drew See also:attention to him, and on the 3rd of See also:November 1895 he entered the See also:Bourgeois See also:cabinet as See also:minister of public instruction, resigning with his colleagues on the 21st of See also:April following . He actively supported the Waldeck-See also:Rousseau See also:ministry, and upon its retirement in 1903 he was himself charged with the formation of a cabinet . In this he took the See also:portfolio of the Interior, and the See also:main See also:energy of the See also:government was devoted to the struggle with clericalism . The parties of the Left in the chamber, See also:united upon this question in the Bloc republicain, supported See also:Combes in his application of the See also:law of 1901 on the religious associations, and voted the new See also:bill on the congregations (1904), and under his guidance See also:France took the first definite steps toward the separation of See also:church and See also:state . He was opposed with extreme violence by all the Conservative parties, who regarded the secularization of the See also:schools as a persecution of See also:religion . But his stubborn enforcement of the law won him the See also:applause of the See also:people, who called him familiarly le See also:petit pere . Finally the defection of the See also:Radical and Socialist See also:groups induced him to resign on the 17th of See also:January 1905, although he had not met an adverse See also:vote in the Chamber .

His policy was still carried on; and when the law of the separation of church and state was passed, all the leaders of the Radical parties entertained him at a noteworthy banquet in which they openly recognized him as the real originator of the See also:

movement .

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