Georges clemenceau biography
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IT would be difficult to name another man whose life has been so varied as that of Georges Clemenceau. We are inclined to think of him only in his last phase; but, in fact, the history of Georges Clemenceau is the history of the Third Republic. His story fryst vatten wonderfully rounded off. If one ignores those early episodes of his lärjunge days, when he tasted the miseries of the Royal prison, his public life may be said to have begun with the defeat of France by Germany. At that time he was the mayor of Montmartre. Fifty years later his public career finished — if, indeed, it has yet finished — with the defeat of Germany bygd France, and the signing of the peace treaty in the same Galerie des Glaces at Versailles wherein, on the very date nearly half a century before, Wilhelm inom was proclaimed Emperor.
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Georges Clemenceau named French prime minister
On November 15, , with his country embroiled in a bitter international conflict that would eventually take the lives of over 1 million of its young men, year-old Georges Clemenceau is named prime minister of France for the second time.
The young Clemenceau was first elected to parliament in , five years after France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. From that time on, he considered the newly united Germany a menace and another war as inevitable, given that “Germany believes that the logic of her victory means domination.” With a strong rate of industrial growth and a steadily increasing population, Germany pressed its advantage in the ensuing decades, while France’s economy remained static and its birth rate remained in decline. Clemenceau, who served as prime minister from to , remained vehemently anti-German, arguing for greater military preparedness and tighter alliances with Britain and Russia.
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Georges Clemenceau (–)
Georges Clemenceau graduated as a physician in , then travelled to the United States where he made his living as a teacher and as a journalist. He even got married and seriously pondered settling in the USA for good, but finally returned to France in
As a passionate Jacobin, he was against everything — the Church, the bourgeoisie, authority and the army. He even spent two months in jail for having spread radical leaflets. He wrote over newspaper articles in defence of innocently persecuted captain Dreyfuss. He was a passionate patriot, a radical nationalist that is a real French chauvinist.
This is how he earned himself his famous nickname — the Tiger. His distaste of the German Empire defined his whole political career. He was a great traveller; his favourite town was Carlsbad, where he paid over 20 visits. He liked having a good meal and had innumerable lovers. In he ran for the post of president but lost to his old time political rival, Raymond Poincar