Maurice Rouvier [SEP] date of death
Maurice Rouvier
Maurice Rouvier (; 17 April 1842 – 7 June 1911) was a French statesman of the "Opportunist" faction, who served as the Prime Minister of France. He is best known for his financial policies and his unpopular policies designed to avoid a rupture with Germany.
Career.
He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and spent his early career in business at Marseille. He supported Léon Gambetta's candidature there in 1867, and in 1870 he founded an anti-imperial journal, "
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- Louis Dumont, anthropologist (died 1998)
- Louis Henry, historian (died 1991)
Deaths.
- 13 February - Alphonse Pinart, explorer, philologist, and ethnographer (born 1852)
- 17 February - Auguste Houzeau, agronomist and chemist (born 1829)
- 24 March - Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de la Chavanne, jurist (born 1824)
- 29 March - Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (born 1837)
- 7 June - Maurice Rouvier