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JEAN ANTOINE ERNEST CONSTANS (1833– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 987 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:ANTOINE ERNEST See also:CONSTANS (1833– )  , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Beziers . He began his career as See also:professor of See also:law, and in 1876 was elected See also:deputy for See also:Toulouse . He sat in the See also:Left Centre and was one of the 363 of the 16th of May 1877 . Re-elected in See also:October 1877, he joined See also:Freycinet as See also:minister of the interior in May 188o, holding this See also:portfolio until the 14th of See also:November 1881 . On the 22nd of See also:February 1889 he again assumed the same See also:office in the See also:Tirard See also:cabinet . He became prominent as a stalwart opponent of the Boulangist party, constituting the See also:senate a high See also:court of See also:justice, and taking See also:police See also:measures against the Ligue See also:des patriotes . He resigned on the 1st of See also:March 1890, but his resignation involved the fall of the cabinet, and he resumed his portfolio in the Freycinet cabinet on the 17th of March . On the 29th of See also:December 1889 he had been elected senator by the See also:department of the Haute-See also:Garonne . He was violently attacked by the See also:press and the Boulangist deputies, but did not resign until the whole cabinet withdrew, on the 26th of February 1892 . In December 1898 he was appointed See also:ambassador at See also:Constantinople .

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