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Show LOUBET ELECTED. The French Assembly Selected lllm as I'retldent of France. Paris, Feb. 20. M. Loubet has been elected president of the French Republic. Re-public. The ofllclal count showed that 812 votes were cast and that M. Loubet received 483, M. Mclino 270 and 50 wcro scattered. President Loubet has asked M. Duputy to retain tho premier ship nnd the present cabinet. Emllc Loubet, who until his election to the presidency was president of the French senate, was born nt Marsnnno on December 1, 1838, was educated for the bar and began his practice at Monte Mon-te mid ar. Ho onUrcd political life In tho general election of 1870 when ho professed himself a Republican nnd opposed to general and comploto amnesty Ho was ono of tho deputies who refused a voto of confidence to tho Dellrognlo ministry tn 1877. |