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ALEXANDRE FELIX See also: born at St Omer on 7th See also: February 1842
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After a brilliant career at the university of See also: Paris, where he was laureat of the faculty of See also: law, he rapidly made his mark at the See also: bar
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He was secretary of the See also: conference of See also: advocates and one of the founders of the Societe de legislation comparee
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During 1875 and 1876 he was successively director of criminal affairs and secretary-general ,at the See also: ministry of See also: justice
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In 1877 he made his entry into See also: political See also: life by the conspicuous See also: part he played on the committee of legal resistance during the See also: Broglie ministry, and in the following See also: year he was returned to the chamber as a moderate republican member for See also: Boulogne, in his native department of Pas-de-See also: Calais
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His impassioned yet reasoned eloquence gave him an influence which was increased by his articles in the See also: Parlement in which he opposed violent See also: measures against the unauthorized congregations
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He devoted himself especially to See also: financial questions, and in 1882 was reporter. of the budget
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He became one of the most prominent republican opponents of the See also: Radical party, distinguishing himself by his attacks on the See also: short-lived See also: Gambetta ministry
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He refused to See also: vote the credits demanded by the See also: Ferry See also: cabinet for the See also: Tongking expedition, and shared with M
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See also: Clemenceau in the overthrow of the ministry in 1885
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At the general election of that year he was one of the victims of the Republican rout in the Pas-de-Calais, and did not re-enter the chamber till 1887
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After 1889 he sat for St Omer
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His fear of the Boulangist See also: movement converted him to the policy of " Re-publican Concentration," and he entered office in 1890 asforeign See also: minister in the See also: Freycinet cabinet
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He had an intimate acquaintance and sympathy with See also: English institutions, and two of his published works—an address, Biographie de See also: Lord See also: Erskine (1866), and Etude sur l'acte du 5 avril 1873 pour l'etablissement d'une tour supreme de justice en Angleterre (1874)—deal with English questions; he also gave a fresh and, highly important direction to French policy by the understanding with See also: Russia, which was declared to the See also: world by the visit of the French See also: fleet. to Cronstadt in 1891, and which subsequently ripened into a formal treaty of See also: alliance
.
. He retained his See also: post in the See also: Loubet ministry (February–November 1892), and on its defeat became himself president of the council, retaining the direction of See also: foreign affairs
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The See also: government resigned in See also: March 1893 on the refusal of the chamber to accept the Senate's amendments to the budget
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On the election of Felix
See also: Faure as president of the Republic in See also: January 1895, M
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See also: Ribot again became premier and minister of See also: finance
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On the loth of See also: June he was able to make the first official announcement of a definite alliance with Russia
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On the 30th of See also: October the government was defeated on the question of the Chemin de fer du Sud, and resigned office
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The real reason of its fall was the mismanagement of the See also: Madagascar expedition, the cost of which in men and See also: money exceeded all expectations, and the alarming social conditions at home, as indicated by the strike at Carmaux
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After the fall of the See also: Meline ministry in 1898 M
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Ribot tried in vain to See also: form a cabinet of " conciliation." He was elected, at the end of 1898, president of the important commission on See also: education, in which he advocated the adoption of a See also: modern See also: system of education
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The policy of the Waldeck-See also: Rousseau ministry on the religious teaching congregations broke up the Republican party, and M
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Ribot was among the seceders; but at the general election. of 1902, though he himself secured reelection, his policy suffered a severe check ... He actively opposed the policy of the Combes ministry and denounced the alliance with M .See also: Jaures, and on the 13th of January 1905 he was one of the leaders of the opposition which brought about the fall of the cabinet
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Although he had been most violent in denouncing the See also: anti-clerical policy of the Combes cabinet, he now announced his willingness to recognize a new regime to replace the Concordat, and gave the government his support in the establishment of the Associations cultuetles, while he secured some mitigation of the severities attending the separation
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He was re-elected deputy for St
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Omer in 1906
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In the same year he became a member of. the French See also: Academy in succession to the duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier; he was already a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science
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In See also: justification of his policy in opposition he published in 1905 two volumes of his Discours politiques
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