   renÃ© goblet (; 26 november 1828 â 13 september 1905) was a french politician, prime minister of france for a period in 1886â1887. he was born at aire-sur-la-lys, pas-de-calais and was trained in law. under the second empire, he helped found a liberal journal, le progrÃ¨s de la somme, and in july 1871 he was sent by the dÃ©partement of the somme to the national assembly, where he took his place on the extreme left. having failed to secure election in 1876, he was returned for amiens the following year. he held a minor government office in 1879, and in 1882 became minister of the interior in the freycinet cabinet. he was minister of education, fine arts and religion in henri brisson's first cabinet in 1885, and again under freycinet in 1886, when he greatly increased his reputation by an able defence of the government's education proposals. meanwhile his independence and outspokenness had alienated him from many of his party, and throughout his life he was frequently in conffict with his political associates, from lÃ©on gambetta downwards. on the fall of the freycinet cabinet in december he formed a cabinet in which be reserved for himself the portfolios of the interior and of religion. the goblet cabinet was unpopular from the outset, and it was with difficulty that anybody could be found to accept the ministry of foreign affairs, which was finally given to gustave flourens. then came what is known as the schnaebele incident, the arrest on the german frontier of a french official named schnaebele, which caused immense excitement in france. for some days goblet took no definite decision, but left flourens, who stood for peace, to fight it out with general boulanger, the minister of war, who urged the despatch of an ultimatum. although he finally intervened on the side of flourens, and peace was preserved, his weakness in the face of boulangist propaganda became a national danger. defeated on the budget in may 1887, his government resigned; but he returned to office next year as foreign minister in the radical administration of charles floquet. he was defeated at the polls by a boulangist candidate in 1889, and sat in the senate from 1891 to 1893 when he returned to the popular chamber. in association with Ãdouard locroy, [[ferdinand sarri
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