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Why was Georges Clemenceau imprisoned as a student in Paris?
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While studying medicine in Paris in the 1860s, Georges Clemenceau became involved with an avant-garde association of republican students who opposed the imperial regime of Napoleon III.1
Clemenceau and his associates founded a journal titled Le Travail ("Work") to express their political views. The publication was seized by the police, and Clemenceau was subsequently imprisoned for 73 days for his role in publishing an advertisement that invited Parisian workers to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the Revolution of 1848.1