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RENE GOBLET (1828-1905)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 169 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOBLET (1828-1905)  , See also:French politician, was See also:born at See also:Aire-sur-la-Lys, in the Pas de See also:Calais, on the 26th of See also:November 1828, and was educated for the See also:law . Under the Second See also:Empire, he helped to found a Liberal See also:journal, Le Progres de la See also:Somme, and in See also:July 1871 was sent by the See also:department of the Somme to the See also:National See also:Assembly, where he took his See also:place on the extreme See also:left . He failed to secure See also:election in 1876, but next See also:year was returned for See also:Amiens . He held a See also:minor See also:government See also:office in 1879, and in 1882 became See also:minister of the interior in the See also:Freycinet See also:cabinet . He was minister of See also:education, See also:fine arts and See also:religion in See also:Henri See also:Brisson's first cabinet in 1885, and again under Freycinet in 1886, when he greatly increased his reputation by an able See also:defence of the government's education proposals . Meanwhile his extreme See also:independence and excessive candour had alienated him from many of his party, and all through his See also:life he was frequently in conflict with his See also:political associates, from See also:Gambetta downwards . On the fall of the Freycinet cabinet in See also:December he formed a cabinetin which he reserved for himself the portfolios of the interior and of religion . The See also:Goblet cabinet was unpopular from the outset, and it was with difficulty that anybody could be found to accept the See also:ministry of See also:foreign affairs, which was finally given to M . See also:Flourens: Then came what is known as the Schnaebele incident, the See also:arrest on the See also:German frontier of a French See also:official named Schnaebele, which caused immense excitement in See also:France . For some days Goblet took no definite decision, but left Flourens, who stood for See also:peace, to fight it out with See also:General See also:Boulanger, then minister of See also:war, who was for the despatch of an See also:ultimatum . Although he finally intervened on the See also:side of Flourens, and peace was preserved, his weakness in See also:face of the Boulangist propaganda became a national danger . Defeated on the See also:budget in May 1887, his government resigned; but he returned to office next year as foreign minister in the See also:radical See also:administration of See also:Charles See also:Floquet .

He was defeated at the polls by a Boulangist See also:

candidate in 1889, and sat in the See also:senate from 1891 to 1893; when he returned to the popular chamber . In association with MM . E . Lockroy, See also:Ferdinand Sarrien and P . L . Peytral he See also:drew up a republican See also:programme which they put forward in the Petite Republique fran4aise . At the elections of 1898 he was defeated, and thenceforward took little See also:part in public affairs . He died in See also:Paris on the 13th of See also:September 1905 .

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