[See also:JUSTIN See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
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
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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
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In 1881 he presented himself as a See also:political See also:candidate for See also:Saintes, but was defeated
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In 1885 he was elected to the See also:senate by the department of Charente-Inferieure
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He sat in the Democratic See also:left, and was elected See also:vice-See also:president in 1893 and 1894
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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
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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
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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
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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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and See also:state
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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
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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
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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
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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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