GOBLET, RENE (1828-1905), French politician, was born at Aire-sur-la-Lys, Pas de Calais, Nov. 26, 1828, and was edu cated for the law. He held a minor government office in 1879. and in 1882 became minister of the interior in the Freycinet cabinet. He was minister of education, fine arts and religion in Henri Brisson's first cabinet in 1885, and again under Freycinet in 1886. He sat in the Chamber on the extreme Left. All through his life he was frequently in conflict with his political associates, from Gambetta downwards. On the fall of the Freycinet cabinet in December he formed a cabinet in which he reserved for him self the portfolios of the interior and of religion. The Goblet cabi net was unpopular from the outset, and it was with difficulty that anybody could be found to accept the ministry of foreign affairs, which was finally given to M. Flourens. Then came what is known as the Schnaebele incident, the arrest on the German frontier of a French official named Schnaebele, which caused immense excitement in France. For some days Goblet took no definite decision, but left Flourens, who stood for peace, to fight it out with General Boulanger, then minister of war, who was for the dispatch of an ultimatum. Although he finally intervened on the side of Flourens, and peace was preserved, his weakness in face of the Boulangist agitation became a national danger. Defeated on the budget in May 1887, his government resigned. In 1888 he was foreign minister in the radical administration of Charles Floquet. He was defeated at the polls by a Boulangist candidate in 1889, and sat in the senate from 1891 to 1893, when he returned to the popular chamber. He died in Paris on Sept. 13, 1905.