Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1896 — FRANCE’S PRIME MINISTER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRANCE’S PRIME MINISTER.

Felix Jules Meline Now at the Helm of the French Government. Felix Jules Meline, who has taken the helm of the French Government as prime minister, is one of the strong men in Gallic politics. Every Frenchman is a politician, and Meline is one of the fortunate few who have come to the front Born in Remiremont, he studied law, and was an intense politician at his majority. He was elected a member of the commune, but declined the office. He was

made a national assemblyman in 1872, and four years later was elected to the chamber. For fifteen years he was almost constantly before the public as deputy or as filling some function under the patronage or necessity of some ministry. He was under secretary of the interior with Grevy, but resigned at one month’s end. Later he was made a member of the tariff commission. In 1883 we find him minister of agriculture. Retiring in 1885 with Ferry’s cabinet, he went back to the chamber, and in 1888 he presided over that body. Since then he has been in the chamber at odd times, and has never been out of the public eye.

FELIX JULES MELINE.