Maurice Rouvier

Maurice Rouvier ( born April 17, 1842 in Aix -en- Provence, † June 7, 1911 in Neuilly -sur -Seine ) was a French politician. In 1887 and again from 1905 to 1906 he was the prime minister of France.

Rouvier studied law and settled in Marseille as a lawyer down. The Republican party belonging, he was appointed after the September 4, 1870 Secretary General of the Bouches -du -Rhône. In the elections elected to the National Assembly on 2 July 1871, he joined the extreme left. Since 1876 Member of the Chamber of Deputies, he was accused of moral offenses in the Palais Royal and indeed declared by the court to be innocent, but in an insulting way for him, even though the libel was revealed.

In the negotiations of the chamber he took a lively interest, especially in financial and economic matters, and was several times Rapporteur on the budget. Léon Gambetta put him in November 1881 in his cabinet head of the Department of Commerce, but he stepped back with Gambetta already on 26 January 1882. He headed it for the second time under Ferry from October 1884 to March 1885 and entered in May 1887, the head of the Cabinet, which held its own until December.

From 1890 to 1911 was Rouvier President of the General Council of the department of Alpes- Maritimes. From 1902 to 1911 he was a member of the Senate and from January 1905 to March 1906 Prime Minister again.

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  • Prime Minister (France)
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs (France)
  • Minister of Finance (France)
  • Senator (France)
  • Person ( Aix -en- Provence)
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1842
  • Died in 1911
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