OBITUARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 May 1922, Page 5

OBITUARY.

M. PAUL DESCHANEL

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PARIS, April 28. M. Paul Deschanel, ex-President of France, is dead. I As politician and the author of a number of works on political and social in which. France was interested, M. Paul Eugene s Louis Deschanel easily took a prominent place in the list of modern intellectual Frenchmen. Born

n 1856 j this future President of his lountry had a distinguished collegiate career and laid the foundations of his subsequent literary successes, his style being exceptionally polished and attractive, while his study of moral and political science enabled him to deal effectively with the leading questions of the day. He commenced his public official service at the age of 22 years, and in 1885 became a member of the Chamber of Deputies, to the presidency of which !h© was appointed in 1896. In 1920 he was chosen President of the French .Republic, but had the misfortune four months later to fall from a train, his injuries causing much, anxiety, the result being that he resigned his high office in the September following, being elected to the Senate in 1921. Few of his countrymen have been so well equipped for £he Presidency as was M. Deschanel, and his election to membership of the Frencch Academy was as much an honour to that institution as it was to the recipient.]