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    François Judith Paul Grévy (15 August 1807 – 9 September 1891), known as Jules Grévy (French pronunciation: [ʒyl ɡʁevi]), was a French lawyer and politician...
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    and the mountain zebra. Named after Jules Grévy, it is found in parts of Kenya and Ethiopia. Superficially, Grévy's zebras' physical features can help...
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    French Republic. The leaders of the group included Adolphe Thiers, Jules Ferry, Jules Grévy, Henri Wallon and René Waldeck-Rousseau. Although considered leftist...
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    directed the opposition to General Boulanger. After the resignation of Jules Grévy (2 December 1887), he was a candidate for the presidency of the republic...
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    December 1886. When the Daniel Wilson scandals occasioned the downfall of Jules Grévy in December 1887, Carnot's reputation for integrity made him a candidate...
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    He discovered his passion for political activity as a secretary of Jules Grévy. He was then appointed prefect but he was removed later on because of...
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    the French Presidency. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2022. "Jules Grévy (1807–1891)". Official website of the French Presidency. 15 November...
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    supporters won a large majority, and Jules Ferry's cabinet quickly resigned. Gambetta was unwillingly asked by Grévy on 24 November 1881 to form a ministry...
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    royalist majority by dissolving the Chambre des Députés, his successor Jules Grévy promised in 1879 that he would not use his presidential power of dissolution...
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    centre Opportunist Republicans faction, opposed in the same faction to Jules Grévy and also to the Radical Gambetta. He was director of Le Gaulois from...
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    Magnin – Minister of Finance Jules Cazot – Minister of Justice Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry – Minister of Marine and Colonies Jules Ferry – Minister of Public...
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    Immanuel Kant, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, George Washington, Jules Grévy, Charles Dickens, George Armstrong Custer, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis...
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    expression of France's gratitude. Little progress was made until 1886, when Jules Grévy was re-elected as president of France and Édouard Lockroy was appointed...
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  • was a great success for the followers of Léon Gambetta, whom President Jules Grévy appointed premier two months after the election. His government only...
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    sa vie et ses discours (Paris, 1883). Jules Dufaure – President of the Council and Minister of Justice Jules Favre – Minister of Foreign Affairs Adolphe...
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    reluctance to the formation of governments under prime ministers Jules Dufaure and Jules Simon, which were dominated by Republicans. In order to contain...
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    Martin. President Patrice de Mac-Mahon was succeeded by the Republican Jules Grévy, who created a new national anticlerical offensive. Bishop...
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    incident 1887: Wilson scandal, which led to the resignation of President Jules Grévy 1890s: Panama scandals 1894: Dreyfus affair, treason conviction of Alfred...
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    Coralie Grévy (1811–1893) was the wife of President of France Jules Grévy. She was born Coralie Fraisse in 1811, and was the daughter of a leatherworker...
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    seven-year term; resigned 3 years, 4 months and 20 days into second term 4 Jules Grévy 3228 4 30 January 1879 – 2 December 1887 One full seven-year term; resigned...
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    de Mac-Mahon, French Co-Prince (1873–1879) Jules Armand Dufaure, Acting French Co-Prince (1879) Jules Grévy, French Co-Prince (1879–1887) Maurice Rouvier...
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    popular today: Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Lili Boulanger, Jules Massenet, César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré and his pupil...
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     106–13. Brogan (1940) pp. 127–43. "François Paul Jules Grévy is Born". Masonry Today. 2017. "Jules Grevy". World Presidents DB. 2017. Pope Leo XIII (February...
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    resigned on 30 January 1879 to be succeeded by the moderate Republican Jules Grévy. He promised that he would not use his presidential power of dissolution...
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    President of the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, and with the...
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    — to March 1885, when he became prime minister upon the resignation of Jules Ferry; but he resigned when, after the general elections of that year, he...
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    substantial group of republicans, including Victor Hugo. At the first session, Jules Grévy, a republican sympathetic to Thiers, was elected president of the assembly...
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    century: Lafayette, Benjamin Constant, François Guizot, Adolphe Thiers, Jules Grévy, Léon Gambetta ARD: Émile Loubet, Armand Fallières, Paul Deschanel, Raymond...
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    kicked at visitors. In 1882, Ethiopia sent a zebra to French president Jules Grévy, and the species it belonged to was named in his honour. Attempts to...
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    contributed largely to the resignation of Jules Grévy from the presidency of France in 1887. He had declined Grévy's request to form a cabinet upon the downfall...
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