biography
pronunciation:
[luhbrõe]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1871–1950)
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| biography:
| French statesman, born in Mercy-le-Haut, NE France. A mining engineer, he studied at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines. He became a deputy (left-wing Republican) in 1900, minister for the colonies (1911–14), minister for blockade and liberated regions (1917–19), senator (1920), and president of the Senate (1931). The last president of the Third Republic, he surrendered his powers to Pétain in 1940, and went into retirement. |
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