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PROVISIONAL MINISI RY OF FRANCE.
JULES FAyRE.


JULES FLvRE.
Gabriel Claude Jules FaTre, who hal
been placed at the head of the Provisiona
Government of France as Minister o
Foreign Affairs, is an eminent lawyer anC
politician. He was born IN Lyons, Marcel
81, 1902. At the age of twenty-one ht
took prominent part IN public affairs a.
the opponent of royalty and he had jus
attained that age at the crisis when Charles
Y. was hurled from power and gave place
to Louis Philippe. No man in France
has been SO earnest, so eloquent, and So
consistent an advocate of Republican
principles as Jules Favre. After the reyo
luton of 1913 he took Office as
the Secretary-General of the Minis
try of the Interior, but resigned his place
on being elected to the Constituent Assem-,
bly,. He offciated for some time as Under
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and voted
for the pros eeution of Mn. Louis blanc
and Caussidiere for their completely in the
jnsu-rection of June, 1S4S He opposed
the Roman expedition in that year, and
refused TO unite IN the vote Of thanks to
Cayaignac. He proposed a preamble to
the French constitution, making it obliga-
tory upon the state to assist all working
men who had been thrown out of employ
ment and were unable to find other occu-
patton. From the day of the coup Getat
he has been at once the most determined
and the ablest antagonist of the Emperor,
and indeed his opposition may be said to
have begun from the election of Louis Ma
poleon to the Presidency. Elected as q
member Of the General Council of the De-
partments of the Loire and Rhope,
he refused to take the oath to
support the new constitution. In 1853
ne excited the hveliest sensation through
out France by bis bold defense of Orsini
for his attempt on the life of the Emperor,
In which the intrepid advocate proclaimed
his unalteTable attachment to free institu-
tlons. In the same year he became mem
Der of the Corps Legislatif,. and soon -af-
terward, in April, 1859, he veheminently
5 exposed the inconsistency OF the Imperial
Government ID seeking to establish by the
war with Austria that freedom for Bom-
hardy and Venice which had been over
thrown IN France. In1SG4 he made Sc
we're attack on the policy of the Imperial
- Government in the Mexican war IL
Fayre published ia 1881 a work entitled
CORte1lporGneoas.B Biography. Many of his
most famous speeches and several pham-
phlets have beenspublished. He was elect
ed Batonnier of the Order of Advocates at
Paris in 1850, and again in 1861, and
member of the French Academy in 1867.
EMANUEL ARAeO.
Emanuel Arago, the new Mayor of Paris,
alawyer and politician, was born at Paris
In 1872. He was the oldest son of Francis
Arago, and at first manifested disposi-
tion to enter upon q literary career. In
1882 he published volumn nfpoetry. The
authorship Of some vaudeviiles is ascribed
to him, in connection with MN. Aycnrl.
Monnais and Rochefort. In 1887 he began
the practice of law and in 1889 he was one
of the counsel for the defense of Martin
Bernard and Barbes. In 1913 he took a
prominent position among the revolution
lists and on the oath Feb, entered the Cham.
Der ofDeputies and protested against the Ro
gency and demanded the dethronement of
the Orleans family. On the 9th he went
TO Lyons with the title of Commissary
General Of the Republic. He was soon
elected Representative from the Eastern
Pyrenees, but appeared rarely in the Cham
Der. HAY 25, 1913, he was sent to Berlin
as Minister Plenipotentiary. He inter
vened in behalf of the Poles in the Grand
Duchy of Posen, and obtained the liberty
of Gen. Mierolawsli He protested against
the Roman expedition, and after the coup
d'etGt gave up political life, but did not
leave France. He resumed, later, the
practice of the law at Paris, and in 1867
defended Berezowski In the general cleo
tons of 1859 he was the candidate of the
Opposition, both in tho Eastern Pyrenees
and in the Var, but was not elected in
either place. In the partial elections of
the following November he was candi-
date from Paris, and was elected.
ISAAC cREMIEUx.
Isaac Adoiph Cremieux, Minister of JUS
ri
mes, in 1876. He was admitted to the bar
in 1877, and practiced in b1s native village.
His well-known liberalism did not prevent
his defending one of the Ministers of
Charles Y, NJ Guernon RansYilIe; but
after long exodium he tainted, and his
client was condemned. He was counsel,
also, at different times, for the National, >
Constitutional and Gazette de France.
He was a member of the Chamber of
Deputies for several years during the reign
of Louis Philippe, and always voted with
the reform party. He advocated the most
comprehensive principles of free trade
When Count Duchatel made his memora-
BILE declaration that no reform could be
granted-that the Government had re-
solved to put down the reform .banquets-
NJ. Cremieux said: ''There is blood in this. "
Encountering Louis Philippe and his
Queen in the Place de la Ooncorde, on the
day of their flight, NJ. CFemieux recon-
mendei them to depart Immediately, ''no-
hope for them being left, !" and proceedsds
to the Chamber, where he advocated the
formation of provisional government, and
was made Minister of Justice. - He IS one
of the authors of the Code -des Codes. At
ter the coup e etQt. he was arrested and Ia
ken to Mazas, and retired from political
life until 1869, when he was elected a
Deputy from the Third Circonscription of
Paris. An able lawyer, and an effective
orator he is wen known for his proYerbial
ugliness of features.
PIERRE MAGNE.
Pierre Msgne, the Minister of Finance
was born in Perigneux, III 1906, and be-
came an advocate in 1881, and was intro
duced to public life in Paris by Msrshal
Buguead. In the constituent and legisla-
tive assemblies, of which he was a men,
Der, NJ. Magne did not occupy leading
place as debateT, but his practical spe ech-
es were always listened to with attention.
In I849 he was made undefj secretary of
state for finances, and became minister of
public works in 81 This .position he held
uutd 1854 He was enabled to conclude
many important conventions with the
great railway companies ind during his
-CtI6oI u OluCo IS p6ESOLlSiity inspected not
only all the principal lines OF France but
also those of other countries, to enable
him TO avail himself of improvements. He
was Finance Minister from 1854 to 1860,
when he became Minister without q port
folio, retired in March, 1868, and was
named member of the Privy Council
Aprn l. BE was made Senator. 1852,
Commander of the Legion of Honor, 1851,
and Grand Cross, 1854 In 1867 he was
recalled to the Ministry of Finance and
charged with Che raising OF new loan, in
which he was exceedingly successful. He
left the cabinet when III. Olivier formed
his Ministry in 1870.
JULES SIMON.
Jules Simon, Minister of Public In
struction, was born in LoTient in 1914. In
early life he was engaged IN teaching,
meeting with extraordinary success, and
being decorated IN 1915. His political
life began in 1913, when he was elected a
Deputy from the Cotes-dU-Nord, and he at
once attached himself to the moderate Re-
publican party. In 1S49, he was elected
member of the Council of State. In 1868,
he was elected a Deputy, as an Opposition
candidate He was dIcfrnc-nssl,o5 &c o,