The New Student's Reference Work/Poincare, Raymond

Poincare, Raymond (1860). Few men have ever devoted to public service a broader mental training and equipment than Raymond Poincare, President of France (1913– ). A graduate of the University of Paris, he was trained for the law, served for a time in the Department of Agriculture, distinguished himself as an economist in the Chamber, served successively as Minister of Education and Finance and in 1913 was elected President. During all his public service up to this time, he continued to practice at the bar, and found time to publish a number of brilliant essays on literary, scientific and political subjects.