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THE FRENCH PRESIDENT.
M. Felix Faure, the new Presidenc of the F ren ;h Republic,
has come to sudden great ness within a week. He was born in
Paris in 1841. was for years a journeyman tanner, and then a
shipowner at Havre. He served in the army in the Franco-
German war. and took part in the suppression of the Commune
of Paris. He acquired considerable wealth, and entered the
Chamber as a follower, almost a protege, of Gambetta. That
statesman made him Under-Secretary for the Colonies, an office
that M. Faure held in three cabinets. When he was elected
President, he was Minister of Marine, and was little known
outside France. He stated just before the voting that he was
a Catholic, but he has always been regarded as a Protestant,
and it is said that he is the first Protestant ruler that France
has had since Henri Quatre. M. Faure is a genial-smiling
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personage or .pleasant manners, an aoie speaker, a nara worxer,
and a splendid administrator. Though not a Clauvinist, he is
interested in French Colonial expansion, It is a strong point
in his favour that he was untainted by " the gold of Panama."
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