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Born April 5, 1832 • Saint-Dié • France
Died March 17, 1893 (aged 60) • Paris • France
Title / Office foreign minister (1883-1885), France

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Hanotaux, detail of an engraving by Dujardin after a portrait by Benjamin Constant
Gabriel Hanotaux
French statesman and historian
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Francis Garnier
French naval officer
Louis Faidherbe
Louis Faidherbe
governor of French Senegal
Marie-Jules Dupré
French naval officer
Louis-Adolphe Bonard
French admiral
Dupleix, engraving by Marie Champion de Cernel after a portrait by Sergent
Joseph-François Dupleix
French colonial official
Émile Loubet
president of France
Combes, photograph by H. Manuel; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Émile Combes
French politician
Pierre de Brazza
French explorer
Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle
René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle
French explorer
Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta
French statesman
Louis de Buade, comte de Frontenac
Louis de Buade, comte de Frontenac
French colonial governor
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier
French explorer
Édouard Herriot
Édouard Herriot
French statesman