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Show LOUBET ELECTED. Tho French Assembly Selected Him as Tresident of France. Paris, Feb. 20. M. Lonbet has been elected president of the French Republic. Re-public. The official count showed that 812 votes were cast and that M. Loubet received 483, M. Meline 279 and 50 were scattered. President Loubet has asked M. Duputy to retain the premier ship and the present cabinet. Emile Loubet, who until his election to the presidency was -president of the French senate, was born at Marsanne on December 1, 1838, was educated for the bar and began his practice at Mon-temidar. Mon-temidar. He entered political life in the general election of 1S70 when he professed himself a Puepublican and opposed to general and complete amnesty. He was one of the deputies who refused a vote of confidence to the DeBrognie ministry in 1877. |