Paul Doumer
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Paul Doumer (March 22, 1857 – May 7, 1932) was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination.
Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France.
He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. In Vietnamese, his last name was pronounced similar to đụ-mẹ, meaning approximately "to copulate with one's mother". (John DeFrancis, Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy, ISBN 0-8248-1068-6)
After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905. He was elected President of the French Republic on May 13, 1931, defeating the better known Aristide Briand.
On May 6, 1932, he was shot in Paris at the opening of a book fair by Paul Gorguloff, a mentally unstable Russian émigré. He died at 04:37 a.m. on May 7.
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| Preceded by Gaston Doumergue |
President of France 1931–1932 |
Succeeded by Albert Lebrun |
| Preceded by Gaston Doumergue and Justí Guitart i Vilardebó |
Co-Prince of Andorra 1931-1932 with Justí Guitart i Vilardebó |
Succeeded by Albert Lebrun and Justí Guitart i Vilardebó |
| Heads of State of France since 1871 |  |
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| Third Republic: Adolphe Thiers • Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta • Jules Grévy • Marie François Sadi Carnot • Jean Casimir-Perier • Félix Faure • Émile Loubet • Armand Fallières • Raymond Poincaré • Paul Deschanel • Alexandre Millerand • Gaston Doumergue • Paul Doumer • Albert Lebrun Vichy France: Philippe Pétain • Free France: Charles de Gaulle Provisional Government: Charles de Gaulle • Félix Gouin • Georges Bidault • Léon Blum Fourth Republic: Vincent Auriol • René Coty |
Trivia
- The fictional hospital in Code Lyoko (Paul Doumer Memorial Hospital) is named in honor of Doumer.
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