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Eugène POUBELLE
French lawyer, administrator and diplomat
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Biography
Eugène Poubelle was born to a bourgeois family in Caen. He studied to become a lawyer and obtained a doctorate. He taught at universities in Caen, Grenoble and Toulouse before being made préfet, or president's representative and regional administrator, in the Charente in April 1871. He became successively préfet in Isère, Corsica, Doubs, Bouches-du-Rhône and finally, from 1883 to 1896, in the Seine département.
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