Armand Fallières

Clément Armand Fallières (born November 6, 1841 in Mézin ( Département Lot-et-Garonne ), † June 21, 1931 ibid) was a French politician ( AD ). From 1906 to 1913 he was President of the Third Republic .

Fallières came from a family of craftsmen. After studying law in Paris , he married Jeanne Bresson in 1868 and settled as a lawyer in Nérac , where he was elected a councilor and in 1871 mayor . In 1876 he entered the National Assembly for the Republicans . As a member of parliament, he represented a constituency in the southwestern department of Lot-et-Garonne. Between 1880 and 1883 he was a minister in several cabinets. At the beginning of 1883 he was Prime Minister for only three weeks and finally from 1890 to 1906 a member of the Senate, which he headed as President from January 9, 1900. Politically, he positioned himself on the left of the Radical Party and was a high-ranking Freemason.

On January 17, 1906, Fallières was elected president of the state by the two chambers of parliament in the first ballot with the support of the left. He received 449 votes, his opponent Paul Doumer (who himself became president in 1931 and was the victim of an assassination attempt in 1932) 371 votes.

As head of state, he replaced Émile Loubet in 1906 and in the pre-war period primarily endeavored to consolidate the Triple Entente with England and Russia. He faced strong heads of government like Clemenceau, Briand and Poincaré, but was able to assert his influence repeatedly in a generally respected referee role. In 1913 he was succeeded by Raymond Poincaré as head of state and Fallières withdrew from politics.

The Fallières coast in Antarctica is named after him.

literature

Jean-Yves Mollier, Jocelyne George: La plus longue des Républiques. 1870-1940. Editions Fayard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-213-02968-7 .

Web links

Commons : Armand Fallières - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ The Coron Chronicle - the 20th Century: 1900–1903 . S. 8. Coron-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-577-17101-4 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fallières, Armand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fallières, Clément Armand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French politician (AD), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mézin , France
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1931
Place of death	Mézin , France

[1] The Coron Chronicle - the 20th Century: 1900–1903 . S. 8. Coron-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-577-17101-4 .