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See also:PAUL See also:DOUMER (1857– ) , See also:French politician, was See also:born at See also:Aurillac . He studied See also:law and made his debut in politics as chef de See also:cabinet to See also:Floquet, when See also:president of the chamber in 1885 . In 1888 he was elected See also:Radical See also:deputy for the See also:department of the See also:Aisne . Defeated in the See also:general elections of See also:September 188g, he was elected again in 1890 by the See also:arrondissement of See also:Auxerre . As See also:minister of See also:finance in the See also:Bourgeois cabinet (from the 3rd of See also:November 1895 to the 21st of . See also:April .1896) he tried without success to introduce an income-tax . In See also:January 1897 he became See also:governor of Indo-See also:China, where he carried out important public See also:works . In 1902 he returned to See also:France and was elected by Latin to the chamber as a Radical . He refused, however, to support the See also:Combes See also:ministry, and formed a Radical dissident See also:group, which See also:grew in strength and eventually caused the fall of the ministry . See also:Doumer became a prominent personage in See also:Paris and was elected president of the chamber in January 19o5, being re-elected in January 1906 . At the presidential See also:election of the 17th of January 1906 he was a See also:candidate in opposition to M . Fallieres and obtained only 371 votes against 449; and the new chamber passed him over as its new president in favour of See also:Henri See also:Brisson . As an author he is known by his L'Indo-Chine francaise (1904), and Le Livre de See also:mes fils (1906) . |
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