Editing Paul Doumer (section)

==Death==
On 6 May 1932, Paul Doumer was in Paris at the opening of a book fair at the [[Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild]], talking to author [[Claude Farrère]]. Suddenly several shots were fired by [[Paul Gorguloff]], a [[Russia]]n émigré. Two of the shots hit Doumer, at the base of the skull and in the right armpit, and he fell to the ground. Claude Farrère wrestled with the assassin before the police arrived. Doumer was rushed to the hospital in Paris, where he died at 04:37 on 7 May. He is the only French president to die of a gunshot wound (although [[Sadi Carnot (statesman)|president Sadi Carnot]] had been assassinated by being stabbed 38 years before).

===Trial===
Gorguloff was indicted for murder and executed by the [[guillotine]] four months later, after a swift trial.<ref>{{cite journal <!-- Citation bot bypass-->|language=fr|date=2011|first=Amaury|last=Lorin|title=Un « régicide républicain » : Paul Doumer, le président assassiné (6 mai 1932)|journal=Criminocorpus|publisher=Centre pour les humanités numériques et l’histoire de la justice (Clamor)|location=Paris|url=https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/435|doi=10.4000/criminocorpus.435|issn=2108-6907|via=[[OpenEdition.org|OpenEdition Journals]]}}</ref>