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
Police mugshot of Gorguloff, 1932
Gorguloff (standing) during his trial in Paris, 1932
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
Paul Gorguloff
…Gorgulov (Russian: Павел Тимофеевич Горгулов; 29 June 1895 – 14 September 1932), 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 6 May 1932. Gorguloff was born in Labinskaya, a Cossack stanitsa in the Kuban Oblast of…
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)