DUPUY, CHARLES ALEXANDRE French statesman, born at Le Puy (Haute Loire) on Nov. 5, 1851. In 1885 he was elected to the chamber as an Opportunist Repub lican, and became minister of public instruction in Ribot's cabinet, in 1892. In April 1893 he formed a ministry himself, but resigned at the end of November, and on Dec. 5 was elected president of the chamber. During his first week of office the anarchist Vaillant, who had gained admission to the chamber, threw a bomb at the president, and M. Dupuy's collected bearing, and his historic words : "Messieurs, la séance continue," gained him much credit. In May 1894 he again became premier and minister of the interior ; and he was by President Carnot's side when the latter was assassi nated at Lyons in June. His cabinet remained in office till January 1895; it was under it that Captain Dreyfus (q.v.) was arrested and condemned (Dec. 23, 1894). In November 1898, after Brisson had at last remitted the case to the judgment of the court of cassation, Dupuy formed a cabinet of Republican concentration. It was no sooner discovered that the judges were likely to decide in favour of Dreyfus than Dupuy proposed a law in the chamber transfer ring the decision to a full court of all the divisions of the court of cassation. This arbitrary act, though adopted by the chamber, was at once construed as a fresh attempt to maintain the judgment of the first court-martial; but the whole court of cassation decided that there must be a new court-martial, and Dupuy at once re signed (June 1899) . In June 190o he was elected senator for the Haute-Saone. He died in 1923.