Charles Dupuy
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| Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 4 April 1893 – 3 December 1893 |
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| President | Marie François Sadi Carnot |
| Preceded by | Alexandre Ribot |
| Succeeded by | Jean Casimir-Perier |
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In office 30 May 1894 – 26 January 1895 |
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| President |
Marie François Sadi Carnot Himself (acting) Jean Casimir-Perier Himself (acting) Félix Faure |
| Preceded by | Jean Casimir-Perier |
| Succeeded by | Alexandre Ribot |
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In office 1 November 1898 – 22 June 1899 |
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| President |
Félix Faure Himself (acting) Émile Loubet |
| Preceded by | Henri Brisson |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau |
| Acting President of the French Republic | |
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In office 25 June – 27 June 1894 |
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| Preceded by | Marie François Sadi Carnot |
| Succeeded by | Jean Casimir-Perier |
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In office 16 January – 17 January 1895 |
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| Preceded by | Jean Casimir-Perier |
| Succeeded by | Félix Faure |
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In office 16 February – 18 February 1899 |
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| Preceded by | Félix Faure |
| Succeeded by | Émile Loubet |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 November 1851 Le Puy-en-Velay |
| Died | 23 July 1923 (aged 71) Ille-sur-Têt |
| Political party | None |
Charles Alexandre Dupuy (French: [ʃaʁl dypɥi]; 5 November 1851 – 23 July 1923) was a French statesman, three times prime minister.
He was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, where his father was a minor official. After a period as a professor of philosophy in the provinces, he was appointed a school inspector, thus obtaining a practical acquaintance with the needs of French education. In 1885 he was elected to the chamber as an Opportunist Republican. After acting as "reporter" of the budget for public instruction, he became minister for the department, in Alexandre Ribot's cabinet, in 1892. In April 1893 he formed a ministry himself, taking as his office that of minister of the interior, but resigned at the end of November, and on 5 December was elected president of the chamber. During his first week of office an anarchist, Vaillant, who had managed to gain admission to the chamber, threw a bomb at the president, and Dupuy's calm response --"Messieurs, la séance continue" – gained him much credit.
In May 1894 he again became premier and minister of the interior; and he was at President Carnot's side when Carnot was stabbed to death at Lyons in June. He then stood for the presidency, but was defeated, and his cabinet remained in office till January 1895; under this government, Alfred Dreyfus was arrested and condemned (23 December 1894). The progress of the Dreyfus Affair cast its shadow over Dupuy, along with other French "ministrables," but in November 1898, after Henri Brisson had at last remitted the case to the judgment of the court of cassation, he formed a cabinet of Republican concentration.
During Dupuy's time as prime minister, a number of progressive reforms were carried out. A law of June 1894 introduced a form of social insurance through a mutual fund for miners’ welfare and retirement, while a law passed in November 1894 introduced the Credit Agricole mutualist savings bank for farmers. In addition, a law passed that same month set out the role of the state-owned Caisse des depots “in the construction and management of subsidised housing.”
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