la maison natale d'Emile Loubet (privée)

A president born in Marsanne!

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Born on December 30, 1838 at five o'clock in the evening, Émile LOUBET studied law, obtained his doctorate and joined the Montélimar bar, where he became mayor and general councillor.
A moderate Republican, he was elected deputy for Drôme on February 20, 1876. He remained a deputy until January 1885, when he was elected Senator for Drôme.
Elected Secretary in January 1887, he was General Budget Rapporteur on the Finance Committee. Returning to the Palais du Luxembourg in April 1888, he was called by President Carnot to the presidency of the Council, a position he held from February to November 1892. Minister of the Interior, the Panama affair led to his replacement on January 1, 1893. He resumed his seat in the Senate and became Chairman of the Finance Committee.
On January 1, 1896, he was brilliantly elected President of the Senate until 1899.
On February 17, 1899, he announced to the Upper House the sudden death of the President of the Republic, Félix Faure. On the same day, the Republican groups agreed to nominate him for the presidency of the Republic.
On Saturday February 18, 1899, the two chambers, meeting in the National Assembly in Versailles, elected Émile LOUBET President of the Republic, by 483 votes to Jules Méline's 279.
On February 18, 1906, Émile LOUBET, the first President of the Republic to serve a full seven-year term, handed over power to Armand Fallières.
He retired to his native Drôme, at La-Bégude-de-Mazenc, where he died on December 20, 1929. Having refused a state funeral, he was buried on the 24th in the Saint-Lazare cemetery in Montélimar.
Newspapers of the time reported that the newly elected president, "whose elderly mother, aged eighty-four, lives at the family farmhouse in Marsanne, Drôme, had married Mademoiselle Picard, daughter of a Montélimar merchant, from whom he had had one daughter and three sons. "
Émile Loubet married young and did not involve his wife, Mademoiselle Picard, in his public life as a politician. Mademoiselle Picard was a specialist in awkwardness: poorly dressed and undiplomatic, she regularly scandalized the head of protocol. For example, when she asked the King of England, Edward VII, about his son, heir to the crown and future George V: "And this big boy, what are you going to do with him later?