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Also Known As Léon-Victor-Auguste Bourgeois
Born May 21, 1851 • Paris • France
Died September 29, 1925 (aged 74) • near Épernay • France
Title / Office prime minister (1895-1896), France
Political Affiliation Radical-Socialist Party
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1920)
Role In Algeciras Conference • Third Republic

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Léon Bourgeois, lithograph by Brunscher, c. 1900
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Briand, 1913
Aristide Briand
prime minister of France
Hanotaux, detail of an engraving by Dujardin after a portrait by Benjamin Constant
Gabriel Hanotaux
French statesman and historian
Daladier, c. 1950
Édouard Daladier
French statesman
Georges-Etienne Bonnet, 1943
Georges-Étienne Bonnet
French politician
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
Pierre Laval.
Pierre Laval
French politician and statesman
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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
Édouard Herriot
Édouard Herriot
French statesman
Doumer, c. 1930
Paul Doumer
president of France
Sarraut, c. 1930
Albert Sarraut
French statesman
Camille Chautemps.
Camille Chautemps
French politician
Doumergue, c. 1923
Gaston Doumergue
president of France
Malvy
Louis-Jean Malvy
French politician
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