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Who was Mary Plummer and how was she connected to Georges Clemenceau?
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Georges Clemenceau.
Mary Plummer was an American woman who became the wife of Georges Clemenceau.
The two met in Stamford, Connecticut, where Clemenceau was teaching at a girls' school during his time in the United States between 1865 and 1869. Despite the opposition of her guardian, they were married in 1869. The couple had three children together before separating after seven years of marriage.1