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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Édouard Daladier
- Succeeded by
- Pierre Laval
- Born
- Jean Louis Barthou , 25 August 1862, Oloron-Sainte-Marie , France
- Died
- 9 October 1934 (1934-10-09) (aged 72), Marseille , France
- Cause of death
- Gunshot wound
- Party
- Democratic Republican Alliance
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Oloron-Sainte-Marie
- Place of death
- Marseille
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Political party
- Democratic Republican Alliance
- Languages spoken
- German
- Image
- Louis Barthou 01.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
- Significant event
- funeral
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- Commons category
- Louis Barthou
- date of death
- 1934-10-09
- date of birth
- 1862-08-25
- member of
- Romanian Academy
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- manner of death
- homicide
- killed by
- Vlado Chernozemski
- writing language
- French
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Louis Barthou ( French: [ʒɑ̃ lwi baʁtu]; 25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913. In social policy, his time as prime minister saw the introduction (in July 1913) of allowances to families with children.
In 1917 and in 1934, Barthou also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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