Biography

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 - 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a strong advocate of separation of church and state, amnesty of the Communards exiled to New Caledonia, as well as opposition to colonization. Clemenceau, a physician turned journalist, played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, most notably successfully leading France through the end of the First World War.
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One of his grandsons married Terka Bernhardt, granddaughter of actress Sarah Bernhardt.

French Prime Minister (25 October 1906 to 24 July 1909 and 16 November 1917 to 20 January 1920).

French politician (Independent Radicals).

French Minister of the Interior (14 March 1906 to 24 July 1909).

French Minister of War (16 November 1917 to 20 January 1920).

[Asked after WWI if he'd ever been to Germany] "No, but the Germans have been to France twice in my lifetime."

I wish to be buried upright - facing Germany.