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Aristide Briand: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born March 28, 1862 • Nantes • France
Died March 7, 1932 (aged 69) • Paris • France
Title / Office foreign minister (1925-1932), France • prime minister (1921-1922), France • prime minister (1915-1917), France • prime minister (1909-1910), France
Founder “l’Humanité”
Political Affiliation Socialist Party
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1926)
Role In Kellogg-Briand Pact • Pact of Locarno • Third Republic

Photos

Briand, 1913
Pact of Locarno
Aristide Briand sits at a desk signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact in a formal room, surrounded by officials and onlookers in 1928.
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Léon Bourgeois, lithograph by Brunscher, c. 1900
Léon Bourgeois
French politician and statesman
Hanotaux, detail of an engraving by Dujardin after a portrait by Benjamin Constant
Gabriel Hanotaux
French statesman and historian
Pierre Laval.
Pierre Laval
French politician and statesman
Jouhaux
Léon Jouhaux
French labor leader
Estournelles de Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'
Paul-H.-B. d’Estournelles de Constant
French diplomat
Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson
Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson
French educator
Portrait of Georges Clemenceau wearing a suit and a wide-brimmed hat, looking to the left with a serious expression.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Poincaré, Raymond
Raymond Poincaré
president of France
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Georges Bidault
prime minister of France
Delcassé, Théophile
Théophile Delcassé
French statesman
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Émile Loubet
president of France
Daladier, c. 1950
Édouard Daladier
French statesman
Georges-Etienne Bonnet, 1943
Georges-Étienne Bonnet
French politician
Léon Blum.
Léon Blum
premier of France
Viviani, René
René Viviani
French politician
Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann
chancellor of Germany
Full-length portrait of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne, showing him in red clerical robes holding a red book, standing beside a balustrade with a draped curtain behind.
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Portrait of Napoleon III in a dark military uniform with gold epaulettes, a red sash, and medals, set against a deep red background. Painted by Hippolyte Flandrin.
Napoleon III
emperor of France
King Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France