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{{Short description|French politician (1846–1929)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder 
|name=Ernest Monis
|image=Monis.jpg
|office=Prime Minister of France
|term_start    =2 March 1911
|term_end      =27 June 1911
| president = [[Armand Fallières]]
|predecessor   =[[Aristide Briand]]
|successor     =[[Joseph Caillaux]]
|birth_date    =23 May 1846
|death_date    ={{Death date and age|df=yes|1929|5|25|1846|5|23}}
|party=[[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]]
}}

'''Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis''' ({{IPA|fr|ɛʁnɛst mɔni|lang}}; 23 May 1846 in [[Châteauneuf-sur-Charente]], in [[Charente]] – 25 May 1929 in [[Mondouzil]], in [[Haute-Garonne]]) was a French politician of the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]], [[Chamber of Deputies (France)|deputy]] of [[Gironde]] from 1885 to 1889 and then [[French Senate|senator]] of the same department from 1891 to 1920. He was [[Prime Minister of France]] for just under four months in 1911. He was also [[Minister of Justice (France)|Minister of Justice]] in [[Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau]]'s [[Bloc des gauches]]'s cabinet (1899–1902) and [[Minister of the Navy (France)|Minister of the Navy]] in [[Gaston Doumergue]]'s cabinet in 1913–1914.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1929-05-27 |title=Ernest Monis |pages=12 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-obit-of-ernest-monis/125790721/ |access-date=2023-06-03}}</ref>

Monis and his son were both injured in the opening event of the [[1911 Paris to Madrid air race]], which saw the Minister of War [[Henri Maurice Berteaux]] killed.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1911-05-22 |title=War Minister Dead; Premier Monis May Die |pages=4 |work=The Daily Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times-war-minister-dead-premi/125790989/ |access-date=2023-06-03}}</ref>

==Monis's Ministry, 2 March – 27 June 1911==
*Ernest Monis – President of the Council and [[Minister of the Interior and Worship]]
*[[Jean Cruppi]] – Minister of Foreign Affairs
*[[Maurice Berteaux]] – Minister of War
*[[Joseph Caillaux]] – Minister of Finance
*[[Joseph Paul-Boncour]] – Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
*[[Antoine Perrier]] – Minister of Justice
*[[Théophile Delcassé]] – Minister of Marine
*[[Théodore Steeg]] – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
*[[Jules Pams]] – Minister of Agriculture
*[[Adolphe Messimy]] – Minister of Colonies
*[[Charles Dumont (politician)|Charles Dumont]] – [[Minister of Public Works, Posts and Telegraphs (France)|Minister of Public Works, Posts, and Telegraphs]]
*[[Alfred Massé]] – Minister of Commerce and Industry

'''Changes'''
*21 May 1911 – [[François Louis Auguste Goiran]] succeeds Berteaux as Minister of War.

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[[Category:People from Charente]]
[[Category:Politicians from Nouvelle-Aquitaine]]
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[[Category:Ministers of justice of France]]
[[Category:French interior ministers]]
[[Category:Ministers of marine]]
[[Category:Members of the 4th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic]]
[[Category:French senators of the Third Republic]]
[[Category:Senators of Gironde]]


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