Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — M. RENE GOBLET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

M. RENE GOBLET.

Tile French Statesman Chief of the Recently Formed Cabinet. M onsi eur R etrn Uobh*Fwa#4>om at A ire-siir-ln-Lys in 1828 and began life as a lawyer at Amiens. He was elected to the

National Assembly in 1871, and in that body rapidly made himself a reputation as an orator. In 1876 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, to which body he was returned by the electors in the following year. Ho gained the enmity of M. Zola, for forbidding the production of “Germinal" last year. Rene Goblet, formerly a protege of Gambetta, is said to be a seeset ally of Clemenceau. He was Minister of Public Instruction in the Cabinet which preceded the one which was defeated in the first weok of December, 1886. In the year 1882 he was Minister of the Interior. M. Goblet is a journalist of liberal views, having founded while at Amiens in 1869 the liberal journal styled Le Progrea de la Somme. He at one period voted for the Wallon Constitution, which Gambetta sought to revise. In 1876 he was beaten by a Bonapartist, and in 1882 he was described by the Figaro as entertaining anti-clerical views.