27 JUNE 1931, Page 3

M. Fallieres The Third French Republic owed much to M.

Armand Fallieres, a foimer President, whose death on Monday, at the age of eighty-nine, we record with regret. He was one of. those provincial lawyers—he practised at Nerac in the Lot et Garonne—whci formed the core of the Republican Party in the troublous years after 1870 and foiled the Monarchist, Bonapartist and revolutionary schemeS. He was Premier only for a few weeks in 1883, but lie served in many Ministries before he became President of the Senate in 1899. Seven years later he succeeded M. Loubet as President of the Republic, defeating M. Doumer, who now, after a quarter of a century, has attained the honour. M. Fallieres, as President from 1906 to 1913, saw the Triple Entente Consolidated and saw, too, the darkening of the war- clouds which were so soon to break on Europe. When M. Poineare succeeded him at the Elysee, M. Fallieres retired to his native place and politics knew him no more.