Word: floquet
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...Glasses. One day late last year he got word that an old friend wanted to see him in Paris. On Nov. 17 Lausman and a companion went to the corner of Avenue Charles Floquet and the Rue Desaix and there confronted the old friend, Czech Ambassador Gustav Soucek. Said Soucek: "The political line at home will soon change to a more liberal line." Lausman was fascinated. He eagerly sought a second meeting...
...became Professor Doumer of mathematics. His throat would not stand the strain of lecturing, and he became Editor Doumer of the journal Voltaire. Meanwhile he had married "for love," his wife bringing no dot. But poor Husband Doumer managed to do everyone proud by becoming private secretary to Charles Floquet, Speaker of the Chamber and later Prime Minister. In 1888 Deputy Doumer was elected. In 1895, aged 38, he became Finance Minister Doumer under Prime Minister Bourgeois. He championed the income tax (then considered dangerously radical) until the Bourgeois Cabinet ignominiously fell. M. Doumer at this time...
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