Paul Doumer
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Joseph Athanase Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer, was a French politician who served as the President of France from June 1931 until his assassination in May 1932. He is described as "the Father
Doumer in 1931
Paul Doumer in a photograph by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
Autochrome portrait by Georges Chevalier, 1921
Assassination of Paul Doumer (Le Petit Journal, 15 May 1932)
Paul Gorguloff
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Paul Gorguloff, originally Pavel Timofeyevich Gorgulov, was a Russian émigré who shot and fatally wounded the French president Paul Doumer at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris on
Paul Doumer
…was in Paris at the opening of a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, talking to author Claude Farrère. Suddenly several shots were fired by Paul Gorguloff, a Russian émigré. Two of the shots hit Doumer, at the base of the skull and in the right armpit, and he fell to the ground. Claude Farrère wrestled…
Police mugshot of Gorguloff, 1932
Gorguloff (standing) during his trial in Paris, 1932