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CHARLES ALEXANDRE DUPUY (1851– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES ALEXANDRE DUPUY (1851– )  , French statesman, was born at Le
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Puy on the 5th of November 1851, his
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father being a
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local official . After being a professor of philosophy in the provinces, he was appointed a school inspector, and thus obtained a
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practical acquaintance with the needs of French
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education . In 1885 he was elected to the chamber as an Opportunist Republican . After acting as " reporter " of the budget for public instruction, he became minister for the department, in M . Ribot's
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cabinet, in 1892 . In
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April 1893 he formed a
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ministry himself, taking as his office that of minister of the interior, but resigned at the end of November, and on 5th December was elected president of the chamber . During his first week of office an anarchist, Valliant, who had managed to gain
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admission to the chamber, threw a
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bomb at the president, and M . Dupuy's collected bearing, and his historic words: " Messieurs, la seance continue," gained him much credit . In May 1894 he again became premier and minister of the interior; and he was by President Carnot's side when the latter was stabbed to
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death at Lyons in
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June . He then became a
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candidate for the
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presidency, but was defeated, and his cabinet remained in office till
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January 1895; it was under it that Captain Dreyfus was arrested and condemned (23rd of December 1894) . The progress of l'a/Taire then cast its shadow upon M . Dupuy, along with other French " ministrables," but in November 1898, after M .

Brisson had at last remitted the case to the
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judgment of the court of cassation, he formed a cabinet of Republican concentration . In view of the apparent likelihood that the judges of the criminal division of the court of cassation—who formed the ordinary tribunal for such an
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appeal-would decide in favour of Dreyfus, it was thought that M . Dupuy's new cabinet would be strong enough to reconcile public opinion to such a result; but, to the surprise of outside observers, it was no sooner discovered how the judges were likely to decide than M . Dupuy proposed a law in the chamber transferring the decision to a full court of all the divisions of the court of cassation . This arbitrary act, though adopted by the chamber, was at once construed as a fresh attempt to maintain the judgment of the first court-martial; but in the
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interval President Faure (an anti-Dreyfusard) died, and the accession of M . Loubet doubtless had some effect in quieting public feeling . At all events, the whole court of cassation decided that there must be a new court-martial, and M . Dupuy at once resigned (June 1899) . In June 1900 he was elected senator for the Haute
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Saone .

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