The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-22
PRESIDENT LouBET.

M. Emile Ioubet, Who IS now III nlS sixty-fifth year, descends from family of farmers settled since the middle of the seventeenth century in the province
 of Dauphine. He studied as lawyer in Paris, and in 1865 joined the bar at Montelimar, the nearest town to his ra-
 tive village of Marsanne. M. Loubet's whole career has constituted an admir- able apprenticeship for the high post he. now occupies. having given him an in
 sight into many, If not most, of the
 branches of the civil administration.
 He was elected Conseiller d'Arrondlsse-
 ment in 1869. The same year he mar
 ried a lady of Montelimar, of which town he was elected mayor on the 4th
 of September, 1870, the date of the
 downfall of the second empire. In 1871
 he was elected to the Conseil General of the Drome, and fourteen years later
 he became president of that body He was returned a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Montelimar in 1876, and joined the Tirard cabinet as minister for public works in 1887. He entered the senate the following year. Before M. Loubet became president of the re- public, in 1899, he had distinguished himself by the good work he did as chairman of the finance committee in the senate in 1890, as prime minister in | 1892, as chairman of the customs conn mittee in 1898, and as president of the senate to which position he was elect ed the same year. 2 He kept the position of mayor of
 Montelimar up to the time of his elec- | ton as member of the Chamber of Dep- uties. His father, M. Auguste Loubet, had been mayor of Marsanne for no | less than thirty-seven years. The fam lily was originally settled in the village of Reauville, where they can be traced | back as far as 1645. The head of the | family, which was engaged in agricul- | ture, had repeatedly held the position of village mayor. There has thus been a long family tradition of experience ill
 municipal affairs.
 | The commune of Reauville is situated
 near Grignan, once the residence ot Mime. de Sevigne. Presidents home ! borders on Provence, but there is a
 marked difference between the Dauphi-
 nois character of that district and the fneighboring Provencal. The popula- tion is practically unmixed Dauphinois The typical Dauphinois has little ol nothing in common with the literary
 poetic and artistic tendencies of tht
 Provencal. The Dauphnois is of < harder and more simple nature, and DO
 litically he has long displayed demo cratim sympathies. In 17SS the revolu tion began in that province before: i broke out in the rest of France. Dau phine had an Etat General of it's own Il year before the Etats Generaux at Yer
 sailles. Tn short, the province of Dau lphine does not form part of the tru'
 Midi; it has an entirely distinct tenn perament. a The president takes keen interest il
 country life and in all the local affair of his home. He is profoundly at 1 taehed to his native soil. Two months
 after his election as president he paid visit to Montelimar where he met hi
 aged mother. Madame Loubet lives ol the farm of La Terrasse at Marsanne near Montelimar, in the house in Whicl her son the president was born. Li
 Terrasse is @ little estate composed
 three farms belonging to the family. I is situated in large plain surrounde'
 by mountains. The president is fond
 shooting, and day of that sport is sti!
 his favorite recreation. He own
 pheasant shooting, and there is a goo
 deal of mixed game to be found on tn
 mountains. The property recently pur lchased by Ma Loubet is about fiftee I kilometres from .hisaold estate of ! Terresse, and halw-Way between Maj