Raymond Poincaré (
August 20,
1860 –
October 15,
1934) was a
French conservative statesman who served as
Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as
President of France from
1913 to
1920.Born in
Bar-le-Duc,
Meuse,
France, the son of Nicolas Antonin Hélène Poincaré, a distinguished civil servant and
meteorologist. Educated at the
University of Paris, Raymond was called to the Paris bar, and was for some time law editor of the Voltaire. As a lawyer, he successfully defended
Jules Verne in a libel suit presented against the famous author by the chemist
Eugène Turpin, inventor of the explosive
Melinite, who claimed that the "mad scientist" character in Verne's book "
Facing the Flag" was based on himself. (A letter which Verne later sent to his brother Paul seems to suggest that, though acquitted due to Poincaré's spirited defence, Verne did intend to defame Turpin.)
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