Georges clemenceau brief biography of william hill
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LET the reader be reassured. This will be no foolish attempt at painting a grand Reynoldsian portrait, with the background of victory and of a glorious solnedgång to warm it. The following pages aim only at replacing the main facts of Clemenceau’s life in their natural environment. Even this humble task has its difficulties, for Clemenceau, as an individual, is far from being well known; he has been frequently and passionately discussed; and there have been in his long life curious incongruities which had better be merely stated than explained.
Georges Clemenceau was born in 1841, the son of a country doctor in a village of Vendée. People in Vendée, since the royalist rebellion of 1794, have been divided into ‘ Whites ’ and ‘ Blues, the former being the Royalists and the latter the Republicans, with all the changes that such words must inevitably undergo in the space of a century. Now, Dr. Clemenceau was a Blue, and of a decidedly deep dye, for he was anti-royalist and anti-clerical
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Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
Georges Benjamin"le Tigre"Clemenceau
Son of Paul Benjamin Clemenceau and Sophie Eucharis Gautreau
Brother of Emma Sophie Clemenceau, Sophie Thérèse Adrienne Clemenceau, Sophie Angèle Julie Clemenceau and Albert Adrien Clemenceau
Father of Madeleine Clemenceau, Thérèse Juliette Clemenceau and Michel William Benjamin Clemenceau
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Biography
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau is Notable.
Georges Clemenceau led France in the First World War. Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles.
Early Life
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