When Was George Clemenceau Prime Minister?

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Georges Clemenceau, Byname the Tiger, French Le Tigre, (Born September 28, 1841, Mouilleron-En-Pareds, France—Died November 24, 1929, Paris), Statesman and...

When Was George Clemenceau Prime Minister?

Georges Clemenceau, byname The Tiger, French Le Tigre, (born September 28, 1841, Mouilleron-en-Pareds, France—died November 24, 1929, Paris), statesman and journalist who was a dominant figure in the French Third Republic

Third Republic
Third Republic, French government from 1870 to 1940. After the fall of the Second Empire and the suppression of the Paris Commune, the new Constitutional Laws of 1875 were adopted, establishing a regime based on parliamentary supremacy. It ended with the fall of France to the Germans in 1940. ...
and, as premier (1917–20), a major contributor to the Allied victory in World War I and a framer ...

When was George Clemenceau elected?

On November 15, 1917, with his country embroiled in a bitter international conflict that would eventually take the lives of over 1 million of its young men, 76-year-old Georges Clemenceau is named prime minister of France for the second time.

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What did prime minister Georges Clemenceau contribute to the Treaty of Versailles?

The French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau, controlled his delegation. His chief goal was to weaken Germany militarily, strategically, and economically. Having personally witnessed two German attacks on French soil in the last 40 years, he was adamant that Germany should not be permitted to attack France again.

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