Félix Faure
Born in 1841 in Paris. Died in 1899 in Paris, buried with the cemetery of the Father-Lachaise (Paris).
Political life :
President of the Republic of January 15, 1895 to February 16, 1899.
1895 - Beginning of the lawsuit Dreyfus.
- Strikes with Carmaux.
1896 - Madagascar, French colony.
- Visit in Paris of the tsar of Russia Nicolas II (Franco-Russian alliance).
1897 - The received President with Saint-Petersbourg.
1898 - Publication in the newspaper of George Clémenceau l'Aurore "I show " d'Emile Zola.
- Foundation of the French League of the humans right (Trarieux).
- Merchant on the high Nile.
- Backing of Fachoda.
- February 16, 1899, at the end of the day, the President of the Republic is in company of his mistress, Marguerite Steinheil, woman of the painter Adolphe Steinheil. He dies of a stroke.
