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  BARTHOU, LOUIS. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barthou sought to strengthen the French position in Eastern Europe.
He was welcoming King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseilles when a Croatian nationalist assassinated (Oct., 1934) both the king and Barthou.
A man of culture and learning, Barthou was the author of several biographies, notably one of Victor Hugo (tr.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Louis_Barthou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Jean Louis Barthou (August 25, 1862 – October 9, 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic.
Barthou was an authority on Trade Union history and law.
Louis Lucien Klotz - Minister of the Interior
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 Power and Pleasure
One of the great political figures of his day, Louis Barthou was also labelled a thief, an accomplice to murder, and a sexual pervert.
Barthou was a centrist in his politics and, while current scholarship maintains that centrists adopted regressive strategies in response to the social question, Young presents an alternative reading of their position.
Barthou's turbulent political career was tempered both by a thirty-five-year marriage to his supportive wife and by a lifetime of pleasure derived from music, art, history, books, and literature.
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 Gaston Doumergue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Malvy succeeds Renoult as Minister of the Interior.
Louis Marin - Minister of Public Health and Physical Education
Louis Rollin succeeds Laval as Minister of Colonies.
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 Barthou, Louis --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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The “Brown Bomber,” Joe Louis was the world heavyweight boxing champion for almost 12 years—the longest reign in the history of the heavyweight division.
A Franciscan missionary, Louis Hennepin was the first explorer to see the upper reaches of the Mississippi River.
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 AllRefer.com - Louis Barthou (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Louis Barthou[lwE bArtOO´] Pronunciation Key, 1862–1934, French cabinet minister and man of letters.
He held portfolios in numerous cabinets after 1894 and was briefly premier in July–Aug., 1913.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Louis Barthou
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 Lamartine Alphonse Marie Louis De: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lamartine left politics and devoted himself entirely to writing, spending much of the remainder of his life in a hopeless effort to repay the fantastic debts he had accumulated in his youth.
Marie Antoinettes...Vise Used by Louis XVI facing...Abbe Edgeworth de Firmont...Expiatory Chapel of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette...
This was Louis Auguste Blanqui...M. Ralea, LIdee de revolution dans les...Blanqui which gave Louis Philippes police in...Delvau, Histoire de la Revolution de Fevrier...historique des progres de lesprit humain...the crass age of Louis Philippe, longed for...
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 "The King is Dead, Long Live the Balkans! Watching the Marseilles Murders of 1934" : Watson Institute for ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The violent deaths of Alexander and Barthou were the successors to those of Ion Duca, Rumanian leader killed by right-wingers, and Dolfuss, chancellor of Austria, victim of Nazi thugs.
On the broader canvas, Franco-Yugoslav relations were stronger than ever, and Barthou was still in the process of crafting a web of alliances that would contain the threat of violence from European states unhappy with the status quo, the most powerful of which was Germany.
Barthou, and the other dead--three women, and the son of one of them--were killed by bullets from "unknown revolvers" of the same caliber as police-issue weapons (De Launay 1974:332)
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 Raymond Poincaré
5 October 1922 - Maurice Colrat succeeds Barthou as Minister of Justice.
Louis Loucheur - Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts, and Telegraphs
Louis Loucheur - Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
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 List of assassinated persons - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Louis Rwagasore, 1961, Burundian prince and prime minister.
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, (1966), Prime Minister of Nigeria killed during military coup.
Louis Barthou, (1934), foreign minister of France killed along with Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille.
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 Encyclopedia: French History: Biographies
Cormenin, Louis Marie de La Haye, vicomte de
Enghien, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'
Nemours, Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d'Orléans, duc de
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 louis pasteur - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
LOUIS PASTEUR 1822-1895 From a bronze by Theodore...Such at least were the parents of Louis Pasteur and such those of Ernest Renan." From...holding up to him as a model a certain Louis Pasteur, a graduate twenty years earlier from...
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) is, of course, a hero in...controversial The Private Science of Louis Pasteur.
Louis Pasteur recognized in 1860 that enzymes were essential to fermentation but assumed that their catalytic action was inextricably...
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Aristide_Briand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Aristide Briand - President of the Council and Minister of the Interior and Worship
Louis Lafferre - Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
Louis Puech - Minister of Public Works, Posts, and Telegraphs
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 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE M. LOUIS BARTHOU -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Includes a very fine collection of bindings which are pictured in many of the accompanying plates in the catalogue.
Contains a frontispiece portrait of Barthou along with a preface describing the man and his collection.
The scarce index volume that was issued in 1937 is bound-in at the end of the 4th volume.
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 1934 - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
October 2 - Tornado in Osaka and Kyoto and destroys the rice harvest - 1660 dead, 5400 injured
October 9 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseilles
July 4 - Boxer Joe Louis wins his first professional boxing match.
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 Barthou, Louis - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Barthou, Louis, 1862-1934, French cabinet minister and man of letters.
He held portfolios in numerous cabinets after 1894 and was briefly premier in July-Aug., 1913.
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 The Nation, 10/19/1916 - Lamartine the Statesman
The article presents information about the book "Lamartine Orateur," by Louis Barthou.
Barthou was admirably qualified to undertake this penetrating study, since he combines much political experience with resources of a cultivated pen.
...M. Barthou was admirably qualified to undertake this penetrating study, since he combines much political experience with the resources of a cultivated pen...
www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v103i2677_13.htm   (1143 words)

  
 Alexander, king of Yugoslavia
In 1934 he debarked at Marseilles on a state visit to France.
A member of a Croatian terrorist organization fired on his car, killing the king and fatally wounding the French foreign minister, Louis
Louis Barthou - Barthou, Louis, 1862–1934, French cabinet minister and man of letters.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Minister's Morning -- Mar. 21, 1927   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
That respected, venerable statesman Minister of Justice Louis Barthou visited, last week, the prison of St. Lazare and there presented one Sister Marie Perpetue with the Order of the Legion of Honor for her 50 years' work among fallen women at the prison.
Soon M. Barthou, impeccably frock-coated, issued out into a courtyard where the children of certain women prisoners were at play.
But the face of M. Louis Barthou only crinkled in a smile: "Eh!
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 Marie-Joseph-Louis-Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As president of the assembly's commission on public assistance, he lent his name to mildly interventionist social programs such as state aid to housinghe favored French military intervention against the Roman Republic in 1849 and helped cement a conservative coalition by promoting concession to Catholics in education.
Despite his growing acceptance of a conservative republic and his opposition to Louis Napoleon's efforts to restore the empire, Thiers assisted in the general conservative reaction against democracy which allowed Louis Napoleon to appear as a friend to the common people and to undermine the popularity and political resources of the monarchist-dominated assembly.
Thiers is best remembered for the political role he played years after the fall of the Second Republic.
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 turning
Roberts, Allen, text p 1-33 'The Turning Point: The Assassination of Louis Barthou and King Alexander I of Yugoslavia', St Martin's Press, New York, 1970
Alexander wants to go to see his occulist in Lausanne.
Barthou: "Official England, he sighed, wanted no part of any pact aimed at stopping the Third Reich from its designs."
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 Paul Painleve Biography
Paul Painlevé - President of the Council and Minister of War
Louis Loucheur - Minister of Armaments and War Manufacturing
23 October 1917 - Louis Barthou succeeds Ribot as Minister of Foreign Affairs
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 Assassinat De Alexandre Ier Et Louis Barthou, Marseille, Le 9 Octobre 1934
Assassinat De Alexandre Ier Et Louis Barthou, Marseille, Le 9 Octobre 1934
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