The increase in the "left-wing" vote seems to bring M, Edouard Herriot to the fore again as a possible Prime Minister, in the event of M. Albert Sarraut finding himself unable to continue in that post when the full results of the French parliamentary election have been recorded. Herriot was drawn into public life from academic life in which he had gained distinction as Professor of higher rhetoric in the Lycee or Lyons, In 1905 he exchanged the professorial chair for the Mayor's parlour at Lyons, He gravitated from municipal to parliamentary polities in 1912 when became Senator for the Rhone. I 1916 he accepted his frst ministerial post as Minister of Pul Works in the Briand Cabinet.
Asa champion of democratic principles he became recognized for his "logic, wisdom and condi as one com: mentator has put it.
He became
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