PRESIDENTS OF FRANCE & VENEZUELA PATENT FOR ORDER OF BUST OF THE LIBERATOR 1904

Description

"PRESIDENT OF FRANCE EMILE FRANCOIS LOUBET
SIGNED DIPLOMA CONFERRED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF VENEZUELA
"
authorizing the
wearing of the officer's decoration of the bust of the Liberator awarded to the director of accounting at the Champagne forges company in Saint-Dizer, January 13, 1904.
Emile Francois Loubet
(30 December 1838 – 20 December 1929) was the 45
th
Prime Minister of France and later President of
France.
Trained in law, he became major of Montelimar, where he was noted as a forceful orator. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1876 and the Senate in 1885. He was appointed as a Republican minister under Carnot and Ribot. He was briefly Prime Minister of France in 1892. As President (1899–1906), he saw the successful Paris Exhibition of 1900, and the forging of the Entente Cordiale with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, resolving their sharp differences over the Boer War and the Dreyfus Affair.
Size: 19" x 15" (48 cm x 38 cm), Signed
Order of the Bust of the Liberator, Officer, Venezuela, 1904, watercolor decoration