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RENE See also: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
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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
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He failed to secure See also:election in 1876, but next See also:year was returned for See also:Amiens
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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
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In association with MM
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