In November 1886, during the discussion of the 1887 budget, he defended the financial policy of the last few years, and made numerous speeches and amendments.

He voted against revision of the constitution, for prosecution of the three deputies who belonged to the Ligue des Patriotes, for the Lisbonne law defining the liberty of the press and for suits against General Georges Ernest Boulanger.

[2] On 6 August 1887, as professor of law at Bordeaux and deputy for Gironde, Faure married Laure Donnat, daughter of a Paris municipal councillor.

[4] The Revue politique et parlementaire was founded by Marcel Fournier, a professor of law and moderate liberal, with the help of partners such as Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau.

Fournier wanted to discuss questions debated in parliament in more depth, and disseminate the views of specialists to the politicians.

[8] In the early 1900s the journal published the competing views of Ferdinand Buisson, Charles Dupuy and René Goblet on the role of the church in education.

[9] In 1910 Faure published articles in the journal on counting civil servants in France and the other main European countries.