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COMBES, [JUSTIN LOUIS] SMILE (1835 ) , French states-man, was born at Roquecourbe in the department of the Tarn . He studied for the priesthood, but abandoned the idea before ordination, and took the diploma of doctor
Then he studied medicine
Charente
Saintes
Charente
Bourgeois cabinet as minister of public instruction, resigning with his colleagues on the 21st of April following. He actively supported the Waldeck-Rousseau ministry, and upon its retirement in 1903 he was himself charged with the formation of a cabinet. In this he took the portfolio of the Interior, and the main energy of the government was devoted to the struggle with clericalism. The parties of the Left in the chamber, united upon this question in the Bloc republicain, supported Combes in his application of the law of 1901 on the religious associations, and voted the new bill on the congregations (1904), and under his guidance France took the first definite steps toward the separation of church
church
movement
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