The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-03

The commune of Reauville is situated near Grignan, once the residence of Madame de Sevigne. The presidents home borders on Provence, but there is marked difference between the Dau- phinols character of that district and the neighboring provencal The popu- lation is practically unmixed Dauphin- ois. The typical Dauphin ois has little or nothing in common with the literary, poetic. and artistic tendencies of the Provencal. The Dauphnois is of a harder and more simple nature and DO litically he has long displayed demo- cratic sympathies. In 178S the revolu- tion began in that provence before it broke out in the rest of France, Dau- phine had an Etat General of It's own a year before the Etats GGeneraux at Versailles. In short, the province Of Dauphine does not form part of the true Midi; it has an entirely distinct tenn perament. ..
 The president takes keen interest in country life and in all the local affairs of his home. He is profoundly at tached to his native soil Two months after his election as president he paid a. visit to Montelimar, where he met his aged mother. Madame Loubet lives on the farm of La Terrasse at Marsanne, near Montelimar, in the house in which her son the president was born. La Terrasse is little estate composed of three farms belonging to the family. It is situated in large plain surrounded by mountains. The president is fond of shooting, and a day of that sport is still his favorite recreation. He owns pheasant shooting, and there is good deal of mixed game to be found on the mountain. The property recently pur chased by M. Loubet is about fifteen kilometres from his old estate of La Terrasse, and halfway between Mar same and Grignan, wfsere the president spent part of his youth and where his brother now praetises as doctor. / The presidents line in politics is that of the moderate republican element. He has been closely associated with Jules Ferry, Moline and Floquet, and with the men who established the re- public of September 4. His political views have not changed. They remain genuinely republican, without any ten- adency to extreme views. They have been consistently maintained by him both as private individual under the empire, and afterwards under the re- public, and in his official capacity as Minister in the Tirade Cabinet-when he vigorously opposed Boulangisn-as well as subsequently, when he co-opera- ted in the senate with Freycinet and Ribot, and with Rouvier, who is work ing with him to-day. His main lines as an active politician consists in the close study of economic questions and 8 vigilant attention to administrative affairs. M. Loubet is protectionist,
 but not of such pronounced type as M. Moline. In 1895 he delivered a great
 speech on financial reform, which re- mains striking example of a we'll reasoned appeal for economy. At the same time it afforded the French peo- pie the satisfaction and encouragement of assuring them that on the whole their finances were well managed.
 M. Lsoubet is a great reader, but chief ly of serious technical matter. He is a hard worker. He rises at or 6:30 a.
 m. and generally retires to rest at half- past ten. He begins the day by reading number of the principal morning pa- pers,s representing different political parties and groups. In that respect he