Charles Dupuy's cabinet resigns after lost confidence vote

Background. The progress of the Dreyfus Affair cast its shadow over Dupuy, along with other French "ministrables." In November 1898, after Henri Brisson had at last remitted the case to the judgment of the court of cassation, Dupuy formed a cabinet of Republican concentration. More broadly, word of the military court's attempts to frame Dreyfus had been spreading since Émile Zola's polemic J'accuse appeared in L'Aurore in January 1898.

Political Context. The French Third Republic was a parliamentary republic where the Chamber of Deputies served as the legislative assembly. During the Third Republic, the Chamber was elected by two-round system with universal male suffrage. Dupuy's ministry operated within this framework, facing pressure from the ongoing Dreyfus Affair and the resulting political disruption.

Resignation. The whole court of cassation decided that there must be a new court-martial, and Dupuy at once resigned in June 1899. His third ministry is dated 1 November 1898 to 22 June 1899, so the resignation closed a ministry of roughly eight months. The passages do not state the precise day of the resignation itself.