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...entered the Chamber in 1888, was its president from 1905 to 1906, and became a senator in 1912. In 1897 he was appointed Governor General of French Indo-China. From 1902 to 1904 he headed the Budget Commission. From 1921 to 1922 he was Finance Minister: also 1895-96. He is "self-made" and a bit vain of that fact; boasts that tobacco has never entered his system...
...Budget of the Chamber of Deputies, Lucien Lamoreux; Deputies, Maurice Bokanowski, Franklin-Bouillon, Vincent Auriol, Marques de Chambrun. The experts attached to the mission include Joseph Simon (Director of the Societe General, large Paris bank). Moreau Neyret (of the Ministry of Finance), Thion de Lachaume (Director of the Indo-Chinese Bank...
...rumor, attributed to Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, that France intended to sell Indo-China and the Antilles to the U. S. provoked a storm of indignation in Paris, particularly among the Colonial Deputies. There was, however, not the slightest foundation in fact for the rumor...
TIME Saigon, Indo-China...
Having traveled far and wide on the continent, he went, after his Oxford days were over, to explore Central Asia. His visits to Persia, Siam, the Pamirs, Indo-China and Korea were not the fitful visits of a tourist, but the premeditated acts of a scholar who traveled to discover and store a fund of knowledge that books could not give...