Evening star., 1898-11-01
THE NEW FRENCH CABINET.
sketches of the Men who VIII Advice
President Faure

A Paris dispatch of yesterday says: NJ
Dupuy's cabinet as now formed consists of
four conservative republicans and the rest
are radical republicans. Or the eleven
names, NM. Dupuy and de Freycinet have
been premiers of France, and NM Lock-
roy, Peytral, Delcasse and Viger have been
ministers in former cabinets. NM Lock
roy. Peytral. Viger and Decasse held their
present portfolios in the late Brisson cabi-
net
Concerning the minister of marine who
succeeds himself from the Brisson cabinet,
1t may be interesting to know that Lock
roy Is merely a pseudonym, or nom de
guerre, his real name being Edouard
Etenne Antoine Simon. He Is a well-known
deputy and journalist, and was born in
Paris in 1888
NJ. de Freycnet Charles Louis de Saul
cess. who Is down for the port folio of war,
was born at Folk in 1928. He was edu-
Gated as a civil and mining engineer at the
Ecole Polytechnique. Later he was en-
gagged on several scientific missions for the
government. After the war of 1870 he
was appointed prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne
From 1876 to 1889 he was q senator from
the department of the Seine. He accepted
the portfolio of public works in the Du-
feure ministry of 1877, and was continued
under NJ. Waddington, whom he succeeded
in December. 1879, as president of the coun-
Gil Since then he has several times been
premier and minister of war and once min
lister of foreign affairs. He has also made
his mark as an author OF economics on
engineering works. He is a member of the
Academy of Sciences of the French Instf-
tute.
Theophile Delcasse, who succeeds himself
as minister Of foreign affairs, was born in
1852, and is a doctor of letters. He began
his public career in journalism.
Paul Louis Peytral, the new minister of
nEance, was born in Marseilles fifty-siX
md v-Ix
were passed as an apothecary in Mar
seilles; he also held the office of conseiller
general for his department. He was elect
ed to the chamber in 1881. He entered the
cabinet formed by NJ. de Freycnet in 1856
as under secretary Of state to the minister
of finance, who was then NJ. Sadi Carnot,
later President of the republic. After re-
tiring from the ministry he became presi-
to February, 1889 he served as minister of
finance in the Floquet cabinet In politics
he Is radical republican.
The new minister Of public instruction,
Jean Claude Georges LeygueS, was born in
1857. He studied law in Villeneuve-sur-Lot,
his native town, and in 1874 he founded
there the republican Journal L'Avenir du
Lot ct Garonne He was first elected to
the chamber in 1899. He Is a fairly we'll
known author and poet
Marie Albert Viger, who Is slated for the
portfolio of agriculture, Is a doctor Of medi
cine, fifty-five years of age. He was elected
ID the chamber as a radical republican in
1885, and as a member of the extreme left
he introduced many economic reforms. He
has given much attention to the study of
school systems, and has constantly fought
for the reform of the school system in
France. NJ. Ribot called him to his cabinet
in 1893 as minister of commerce.
There are two NM. Krantz. well known in
France, Jean B. s. and Jules F. E., cousins,
one an engineer and the other retired ma
val officer who served as minister of ma
rine in 1891, and later thrice as minister Of
marine and of the colonies; his ministerial
career ended in 1SS9 1t is unlikely that
either of these gentlemen is the NJ. Krantz
who is slated for the portfolio of public
works.
NJ Deloncle, down for minister of COM
merce, is a brother of the late Captain De-
icncle of the ill-fated French Line steamer
La Bourgogne, and a rabid expansionist.