Une ascension en République

Amaury Lorin

Based on research in nearly thirty archival centers including newly-discovered family archives, as well as field studies in France, Russia and Vietnam, this dissertation sets out to fill an important gap of the history of the French Republic: despite 25.000 roads in France named after Paul Doumer (1857-1932), the thirteenth President of the French Third Republic (1931-1932), no study has yet been dedicated to him. General-Governor of Indochina (1897-1902); the only genuine worker's son among the leading elites of the Third Republic; the only teacher among the fourteen Presidents of the Third Republic; one of the few who successively presided over each of the two Chambers but, on the other hand, who did not chair the government or any political party: Paul Doumer's career represents many exceptions. Doumer took an active role on every important political issue from 1887 to 1932,...