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3 unusual facts about Félix Faure


Bolesław Matuszewski

he used the Lumières' Cinématographe to record the official visit to St. Petersburg, of the French President Félix Faure.

Félix Faure

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was "Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée" (another wordplay in French; could mean both "he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey", or "he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown": the verb "pomper" in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper L'Aurore, wrote that "upon entering the void, he Faure must have felt at home".

Trinity Bridge, Saint Petersburg

Félix Faure, the president of France was present at the ceremony.



see also

Pascal Lissouba

He gained his education at the Lycee Felix Faure in Nice (1948–52), the École Supérieure d'Agriculture in Tunis and the University of Paris (1958–61).