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SEPTEMBRE 28, 1841

Born in Mouilleron en Pareds, in France’s Vendee region

Child Labor law

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1858 – 1865

Medical studies in Nantes and then Paris

Opposition to Napoléon III

1852-1870 Second Empire

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1865 – 1869

Departure to the United States – Marries Mary Plummer

1865 – Civil War ends

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1870 – 1876

Mayor of Paris’s 18th district – City councilman and then President of the Paris municipal council, Paris deputy

On 18 January 1871, King William I of Prussia is proclaimed Emperor of Germany at Versailles and armistice is signed with the German invader a week later. Georges Clemenceau, mayor of Montmartre and Paris deputy, refuses to accept the annexation of Alsace and Moselle and resigns from the National Assembly. In March 1871, he welcomes the patriotic uprising in Paris, without officially joining the Commune. Again elected deputy for Paris’s 18th district in 1876, Clemenceau breaks with Gambetta and the rest of the government shortly after the republican success in 1877, judging them too cautious in their approach to reform. He campaigns alongside Victor Hugo for amnesty for the Communards.
Reelected as deputy on a radical program in 1881, he becomes opposition leader for the extreme left and fights for his vision of a strong and united republic for all citizens. Actively opposed to colonialization, Clemenceau draws on his eloquence in parliament to bring down successive minsters, including Jules Ferry, his main adversary.

The Third Republic (1870-1940) – Paris Commune (Spring 1871)

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1879 

Edouard Manet paints two portraits of Clemenceau

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1880

Founds La Justice newspaper

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1885

Deputy for Var

Political debate with Jules Ferry on colonialization and the concept of the « inferior race »

Clemenceau the duelist also fights with words and his tongue is as feared as his sword or pistol. His parliamentary eloquence- intense, concise, and devastating- is a weapon unleashed triumphantly against successive cabinets that earns him the nickname « destroyer of ministries ». Notably, Clemenceau’s violent attacks on Jules Ferry’s colonial policy that was founded on the superiority of the white race cause Ferry’s fall in 1885. His words have remained famous: « Superior races, inferior races, that’s easy to say…The Hindus an inferior race? With their great refined civilization emerged from the mists of time…The Chinese an inferior race? Their origins unknown but seemingly from the dawn of ages… ».

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1891

Resumes contact with Monet thanks to Gustave Geffroy

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1892

Panama scandal

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1893

Loses election in Var
Clemenceau dedicates himself to journalism and writing

Alfred Dreyfus is convicted

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1894

Clemenceau sells Asian art collections to raise money

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1895

Publishes an article on Monet’s cathedrals in 1895 in La Justice and speaks at the Goncourt banquet

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1896

Moves to rue Franklin

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1898

J’accuse is published in l’Aurore

Clemenceau is a central player from 1897 onwards in the rehabilitation of Captain Dreyfus, who had been unjustly convicted by a military tribunal for spying. Alongside Jean Jaurès and other writers and intellectuals, he fights tirelessly to overturn the judgement. In January 1898, he gives the famous title of J’accuse to Emile Zola’s decisive l’Aurore diatribe against the Army General Staff. Clemenceau would produce no less than 665 articles in various publications until truth and justice prevails. In 1908 and just a few years after Zola’s death, Clemenceau as head of the government arranges for Zola’s ashes to be moved to the Pantheon.

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1901

Clemenceau’s play, The Veil of Happiness, is staged at Théâtre de la Renaissance

Chronology

1906 – 1909

Elected senator for Var in 1902, Clemenceau becomes interior minister and President of the Council

Clemenceau is chosen by President Armand Fallières to form a new government and he succeeds Sarrien in October 1906.

Miners’ strike – Wine workers protest in the south

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1911

Auguste Rodin works on a bust of Clemenceau

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1913

Founds newspaper l’Homme Libre (The Free man), which becomes L’Homme Enchaîné (The Chained man) in 1914

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1914

Numerous visits to the Front

2 august – World War I begins

 

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1917 – 1920

Minister of War and President of the Council – Rents house at Bélébat

In November 1917, at the height of France’s national distress, President Raymond Poincaré calls on Clemenceau to form the government. Serving both as President of the Council and Minister of War until his withdrawal in early 1920, Clemenceau exhibits an iron will and undisputed authority. He imposes the union of allied forces under the sole command of Ferdinand Foch, announces the armistice in the National Assembly on 11 November 1918 and is the main French architect of the Treaty of Versailles negotiated with British Prime Minister Lloyd George and the American President Woodrow Wilson. Clemenceau would later write about this period in his posthumous work, Grandeur and Misery of Victory.

 

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1919

Armistice, Treaty of Versailles (1919)

 

 

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1920 – 1922

Travels in Asia as far as Indonesia and lecture tour in the United States

Versailles Treaty application problems

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1923 – 1929

Final works

Meets Marguerite Baldensperger, his last love and writes Démosthène at her request.

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1927

Inaugurates the Water Lillies installation at l’Orangerie a few months after Claude Monet’s death

Late in life, his longstanding friendship deepens with Claude Monet. Clemenceau is an untiring supporter and encourages Monet’s Water Lilies donation and installation at the l’Orangerie museum. « When the water garden lilies transport us from the liquid plain to the travelling clouds of infinite space, we leave the earth and its sky to experience fully the supreme harmony of things ».

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1929

24 november Georges Clemenceau dies at rue Franklin

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