biography
| name: |
Grévy, (François Paul) Jules
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pronunciation:
[grayvee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1807–91)
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| biography:
| French statesman and president (1879–87), born in Mont-sous-Vaudrey, E France. As an advocate he acquired distinction in the defence of Republican political prisoners. Vice-president of the Constituent Assembly (1848), he opposed Louis Napoleon, and after the coup retired from politics; but in 1869 he was again returned for Jura. In February 1871 he became president of the National Assembly, and was re-elected in 1876, 1877, and 1879. He was elected president of the Republic in 1879, and elected again in 1885, but, hampered by ministerial difficulties, resigned in December 1887. |
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