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Born December 5, 1863 • Paris • France
Died October 29, 1933 (aged 69) • Paris • France
Title / Office prime minister (1925-1925), France • prime minister (1917-1917), France
Political Affiliation Cartel des Gauches
Subjects Of Study differential equation • function • three-body problem • transformation • aviation
Role In World War I • Third Republic

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Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé, drawing by A. Bilis, 1930.
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Georges Clemenceau
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Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch
marshal of France
Philippe Petain in military uniform and decorated cap, facing the camera with a neutral expression and a large mustache.
Philippe Pétain
French general
Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre
Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre
French general
Joseph-Simon Gallieni
Joseph-Simon Gallieni
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François de La Rocque
French politician and army officer
Mabel St. Clair Stobart
Mabel St. Clair Stobart
English feminist and medical worker
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John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.
American financier
Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta
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Charles Lanrezac
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Édouard Herriot
Édouard Herriot
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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
King Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France
Philip II.
Philip II
king of France
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
French statesman
Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
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Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian

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