Felix Faure

See also: Faure

Felix Faure (Paris, January 30th 1841 - Paris, February 16th 1899) is a politician French, President of the Republic of 1895 to its death in 1899.

Biography

Its beginnings

Felix Faure was born with Paris. He carries out his schooling at the Pompée school of Ivry-sur-Seine. He begins his career as leather trader with the Havre. He marries in 1865 Berthe Belluot of which he will not have a child.

Political career

Felix Faure enters in policy as a moderate republican deputy. He becomes under-secretary of State to the colonies in several successive cabinets, then under-secretary of State to the navy and finally Minister for the Navy.

President of the Republic

Following the resignation of Casimir-Perier, it is elected president of IIIe République the January 17th 1895. It contributes to the Russian bringing together free , receiving the tsar Nicolas II. It takes part in the colonial expansion, in particular with the conquest of Madagascar. The relations with the England are tended since the crisis of Fachoda. Its mandate is marked by the Affaire Dreyfus. Felix Faure remains hostile with a revision of the lawsuit.

Death

Felix Faure, which one said that it was more famous for its death than by its life, died in the Elys3ee palace on February 16th, 1899.

In 1897, it meets, in Chamonix, Marguerite Steinheil, wife of the painter Adolphe Stenheil to which is entrusted an official order. So Felix Faure will often go Impasse Ronsin, in Paris, with the Villa “the Green Home” where resides the Steinheil couple. Soon, Marguerite becomes the mistress of Felix Faure and regularly joined it in the “blue living room” of the Elys3ee palace.

The February 16th 1899, Felix Faure calls Marguerite on the telephone and asks him to pass to see it in end of the afternoon. A few moments after its arrival, the servants hear a ring éperdu and run: lengthened on a couch, the president rail while Marguerite Steinheil readjusts her clothing in disorder. Felix Faure dies a few hours later.

He is in fact dead of a Stroke. The rumor wants that Faure died in the arms of its mistress Marguerite Steinheil. A current joke wants that he died of a Heart attack at the time of the Orgasme which its mistress by a Fellation got to him (it is the topic of a dialog in the film the cruel Invasions ).

It is told that the priest who arrived at his bedside would have asked: “Is the President informed always his? ”. A servant would have answered him: “Not, Mister the priest, one made it leave by behind”.

Marguerite Steinheil was then called the “Undertaking”. Clemenceau would have said of him (word brought back in various forms): “ It wanted to be César, it was only Pompée ”, allusion to the taste of the president for the ostentation of which the satirists of the time had habit to make fun. Georges Clémenceau, who hardly liked it, apparently would have also declared after her death “While entering nothing, it had to feel at his place” . It is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise.

Electoral mandates

Prosperous industrialist with the Harbor, Felix Faure decides to launch out in the policy. It was known as that it was elected president because he represented the choice less disturbing for the whole of the parties.

Governmental functions

  • 1881 - 1882: under-secretary of State to the trade and the colonies
  • 1883 - 1885, then 1888: under-secretary of State to the navy
  • 1894 - 1895: Minister for the navy

External bonds

  • the happy death of Felix Faure

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