15 Facts About Fernand Dubief

Fernand Jean-Baptiste Dubief was born on 14 October 1850 in Varennes-les-Macon, Saone-et-Loire.

Fernand Dubief's father was a Republican and was deported after the 2 December 1851 coup by Napoleon III.

Fernand Dubief obtained a diploma as a doctor in 1875.

Fernand Dubief became a Freemason, and sat on the Council of the Grand Orient, the central Freemasonry authority in France.

In 1893, Fernand Dubief was elected mayor of Romaneche-Thorins and was elected to the Saone-et-Loire departmental general council.

Fernand Dubief sat with the Radical Republican and Radical Socialist group.

Fernand Dubief was secretary of the assembly from 1898 to 1900.

In 1905, Fernand Dubief was chairman of the Radical Socialist group, president of the Commission du Travail, and regarded as an expert of labor issues.

On 13 July 1905 Fernand Dubief presented a bill requiring ongoing vocational education in the workplace for young workers.

Fernand Dubief was responsible for a law that was approved on 8 October 1905 which established a special tariff of medical fees for accidents to working men.

Fernand Dubief was succeeded as Minister of the Interior by Georges Clemenceau, the prime minister for the next three years.

In 1906 Fernand Dubief was elected mayor of the commune of Prisse.

Fernand Dubief tried to make the point that the mentally ill were suffering from a disease, and should therefore be helped and protected by the state.

Fernand Dubief lost his seat as deputy in the general elections of 1910 to a Radical Socialist opponent, but was reelected in the first round on 26 April 1914.

Ferdand Fernand Dubief died at the age of 65 on 4 June 1916 in Asnieres-sur-Seine, Seine.