Georges Clemenceau
Noun
Meaning
French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929)
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Examples
Along with Foch, the French Premier, Georges Clemenceau had demanded that Germany's Western border be fixed at the Rhine. Clemenceau relented when the Treaty of Guarantee was proposed. However Foch insisted that the French occupation of the Rhineland was crucial to halting future German aggression.
At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Lloyd George, American President Woodrow Wilson and French premier Georges Clemenceau made all the major decisions.
K. Tsatsos, Demosthenes, 352. French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau was among those who idealised Demosthenes and wrote a book about him.
Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau was determined, for these reasons, that any just peace required Germany to pay reparations for the damage it had caused.
Two days later, municipal councils in each of the twenty arrondissements of Paris voted to elect mayors; five councils elected radical opposition candidates, including Delescluze and a young Montmartrean doctor, Georges Clemenceau.
The French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau described France's position best by telling Wilson: "America is far away, protected by the ocean.