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What were the circumstances of French President Félix Faure's death in 1899?
Faure died on 16 February 1899 in the Salon Bleu of the Élysée Palace during a private afternoon with Marguerite Steinheil. The official cause was apoplexie foudroyante. The actual cause was a sudden cerebral hemorrhage during a sexual encounter. Clemenceau's epitaph: 'He wanted to be Caesar; he was only Pompey.'
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The French President Who Died on the Job Félix Faure had ambitions of being Caesar. On a February afternoon in 1899, he became something else.
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