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Clemenceau was defeated on 20 July 1909 in a discussion in the Chamber of Deputies on the state of the navy, in which bitter words he exchanged with Théophile Delcassé, the former president of the Council whose downfall Clemenceau had aided. Refusing to respond to Delcassé's technical questions, Clemenceau resigned after his proposal for the ...
On 16 May 1877, 363 French deputies – among them Georges Clemenceau, Jean Casimir-Perier and Émile Loubet – passed a vote of no confidence (Manifeste des 363). MacMahon dissolved the parliament and called for new elections , which brought 323 Republicans and 209 royalists to the Chamber, marking a clear rejection of the President's move.
Cottin was seized by the crowd following Clemenceau's procession and nearly lynched. [4] The cover of Le Miroir on 2 March 1919 Cottin under arrest. Clemenceau often joked about Cottin's bad marksmanship – "We have just won the most terrible war in history, yet here is a Frenchman who misses his target 6 out of 7 times at point-blank range.
The Clemenceau family is a French Protestant family originating from the Vendée. This family has produced notable physicians and politicians, including Georges Clemenceau , who served multiple times as a minister and as President of the Council of Ministers from 1917 to 1920.
The next day, Clemenceau addressed a half-threatening, half-ironic missive to all the mayors of the wine-growing towns of Languedoc and Roussillon. This earned him a scathing reply from Ernest Ferroul: "Monsieur Clemenceau, since the beginning of our demonstrations, has considered us as big children, good boys, but unaware of our actions.
Georges Clemenceau rebuffed Brockdorff-Rantzau's allegations, arguing that "the legal interpretation [of the article] was the correct one" and not a matter of political question. [ 44 ] Lloyd George commented that "the English public, like the French public, thinks the Germans must above all acknowledge their obligation to compensate us for all ...
Later, when Prime Minister Clemenceau was convinced that General Foch's powers should be strengthened further, Mordacq explained why to Churchill, who "listened to me with close attention, but did not reply to my suggestions. We soon changed the subject". [9] However, this did not absolve Churchill from meddling in other affairs.
L'Aurore (French for 'The Dawn'; IPA:) was a literary, liberal, and socialist newspaper published in Paris, France, from 1897 to 1914.Its most famous headline was Émile Zola's J'accuse...! leading into his article on the Dreyfus Affair.