Georges Clemenceau

Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)

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Lived 1841–1929, aged 88France

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1841–1929
Aged 88

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Updated 2026-05-29

French PM during WWI's endgame and again in the early 1900s, Clemenceau swapped medicine for politics and became a fixture of Third Republic power plays. Doctor-turned-journalist with a taste for church-state separation and radical amnesty movements.

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Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end of the First World War. He was a key figure of the Independent Radicals, advocating for the separation of church and state, as well as the amnesty of the Communards exiled to New Caledonia.

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