Jules Grevy
| Jules Grévy | |
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| President of the French Republic | |
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In office 30 January 1879 – 2 December 1887 |
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| Prime Minister |
Jules Armand Dufaure William Henry Waddington Charles de Freycinet Jules Ferry Léon Gambetta Charles de Freycinet Charles Duclerc Armand Fallières Jules Ferry Henri Brisson Charles de Freycinet René Goblet Maurice Rouvier |
| Preceded by | Patrice de MacMahon |
| Succeeded by | Marie François Sadi Carnot |
| Co-Prince of Andorra | |
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In office 30 January 1879 – 2 December 1887 |
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| Served with | Salvador Casañas y Pagés |
| Preceded by | Patrice de MacMahon |
| Succeeded by | Marie François Sadi Carnot |
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| Born | 15 August 1807 Mont-sous-Vaudrey, France |
| Died | 9 September 1891 (aged 84) Mont-sous-Vaudrey, France |
| Political party | Opportunist Republican |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
François Paul Jules Grévy (French pronunciation: [ʒyl ɡʁevi]; 15 August 1807 – 9 September 1891) was a President of the French Third Republic and one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans faction. Given that his predecessors were monarchists who tried without success to restore the French monarchy, Grévy is seen as the first real republican President of France.
Born at Mont-sous-Vaudrey in the Jura Mountains, he became an advocate in 1837 distinguishing himself at the Conférence du barreau de Paris, and, having steadily maintained republican principles under the Orléans monarchy, was elected by his native department to the Constituent Assembly of 1848. Foreseeing that Louis Bonaparte would be elected president by the people, he proposed to vest the chief authority in a president of the Council elected and removable by the Assembly, or in other words, to suppress the Presidency of the Republic. After the coup d'état this proposition gained Grévy a reputation for sagacity, and upon his return to public life in 1868 he took a prominent place in the Republican party.
Initiated at "La Constante Amitié" in Arras, his Masonic activity is inseparable from his political action, specially in the struggle for separation of Church and State that marked the beginning of the Third Republic and MacMahon resignation.
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