Original sentence: But at a critical moment in the proceedings his death occurred suddenly, from apoplexy, on 16 February 1899.To accomplish this end it was necessary to unite the party, and unity could only be secured by the nomination of someone who offended no one
Edited sentence: An unconfirmed quotation by Georges Clémenceau has him saying, alluding to Faure's taste for decorum: "He wanted to be Caesar, alas he became merely Pompey" (Il voulait être César, hélas, il ne fut que Pompée: in French, Pompée (Pompey) sounds like pompé (blown)).But at a critical moment in the proceedings his death occurred suddenly, from apoplexy, on the 16th of February 1899.He is rumoured to have died while receiving oral sex from Marguerite Steinheil.Marguerite Steinheil came to be known as Pompe Funèbre (pun of "funeral industry" and "deadly sucker").The priest who came for Félix Faure's when he died allegedly asked a policeman whether the president still "had his consciousness", to which the policeman replied "no, she left through the back door" (this in French, connaissance means both "consciousness" and "acquaintance").This incident was the theme of numerous jokes and rumours:.To accomplish this end it was necessary to unite the party, and unity could only be secured by the nomination of some one who offended nobody.With all his faults, and in spite of no slight amount of personal vanity, President Faure was a shrewd political observer and a good man of business