Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)
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He dragged France through the last years of the First World War and then sat across from Germany at Versailles, demanding every ounce of restitution the victors could extract. The Tiger didn't want terms; he wanted certainty that 1,400,000 dead French soldiers would never be repeated.
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a physician who became a journalist before entering the politics of the Third Republic, where he pushed for separation of church and state and amnesty for exiled Communards. He served as prime minister from 1906 to 1909, then again from 1917 through the war's end in 1920. After more than a million French soldiers died between the German invasion and Armistice, he insisted on total victory: reparations, transferred colonies, disarmament rules, and the return of Alsace–Lorraine, annexed by Germany in 1871. He secured those terms in the Treaty of Versailles at the…
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[If the Socialists want peace] so do I, but it is not by bleating of peace that we can silence Prussian militarism. A moment ago M.
Mistakes have been made; do not think of them except to rectify them. Alas, there have also been crimes, crimes against France which call for a prompt punishment.
In the distance huge trees were still blazing, around us was a waste of ashes and of half-consumed boughs, and the falling rain seemed only to quicken the dying conflagration.
I think war is inevitable.
No, my friend, Germany will not declare war on us [at this moment].
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