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Felix Francois Faure death...
Felix Francois Faure death...
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February 17, 1899
SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE AND BULLETIN, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1899
* Félix François Faure death
* President of France
This 8 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page that include: "PRESIDENT FAURE DIES SUDDENLY" "He Expired at Ten O'clock Last Night" and more.
Other news of the day. Usual browning with little margin wear, otherwise good. Should be handled with care.
wikipedia notes: Faure died suddenly from apoplexy on 16 February 1899, at a critical juncture whilst engaged in sexual activities in his office with 30-year-old Marguerite Steinheil. It has been widely reported that those activities were oral sex, but their exact nature is in fact unknown and such reports may have stemmed from various jeux de mots (puns) made up afterward by his political opponents. One such pun was to nickname Mme Steinheil "la pompe funèbre" (wordplay in French: could mean both "funeral pomp" and "funeral pump"). George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was "Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée" (another wordplay in French; could mean both "he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey", or "he wished to be Caesar and ended up being pumped"); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper l'Aurore, wrote that "upon entering the void, he [Faure] must have felt home". After his death, some alleged extracts from his private journals, dealing with French policy, were published in the Paris press.
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