Aristide Briand
Aristide Briand | |
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55th Prime Minister of France | |
In office 29 July 1929 – 2 November 1929 | |
| Preceded by | Raymond Poincaré |
| Succeeded by | André Tardieu |
In office 28 November 1925 – 20 July 1926 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Painlevé |
| Succeeded by | Édouard Herriot |
In office 16 January 1921 – 15 January 1922 | |
| Preceded by | Georges Leygues |
| Succeeded by | Raymond Poincaré |
In office 29 October 1915 – 20 March 1917 | |
| Preceded by | René Viviani |
| Succeeded by | Alexandre Ribot |
In office 21 January 1913 – 22 March 1913 | |
| Preceded by | Raymond Poincaré |
| Succeeded by | Louis Barthou |
In office 24 July 1894 – 2 March 1911 | |
| Preceded by | Georges Clemenceau |
| Succeeded by | Ernest Monis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 March 1862 Nantes, France |
| Died | 7 March 1932(1932-03-07) (aged 69) Paris, France |
| Political party | SFIO PRS |
Aristide Briand (French: [a.ʁis.tid bʁi.jɑ̃]; 28 March 1862 – 7 March 1932) was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and was a co-laureate of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Activism
3 Prime Minister of France
3.1 Pre-War
3.2 First World War
3.2.1 1914-15
3.2.2 1916
3.2.3 Reconstructed government
3.3 1920s
4 Kellogg–Briand Pact
5 Briand Plan for European union
6 Governments
6.1 Briand's first Government, 24 July 1909 – 3 November 1910
6.2 Briand's second Government, 3 November 1910 – 2 March 1911
6.3 Briand's third and fourth Governments, 21 January – 22 March 1913
6.4 Briand's fifth Government, 29 October 1915 – 12 December 1916
6.5 Briand's sixth Government, 12 December 1916 – 20 March 1917
6.6 Briand's seventh Government, 16 January 1921 – 15 January 1922
6.7 Briand's eighth Government, 28 November 1925 – 9 March 1926
6.8 Briand's ninth Government, 9 March – 23 June 1926
6.9 Briand's tenth Government, 23 June – 19 July 1926
6.10 Briand's eleventh Government, 29 July – 3 November 1929
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links
Early life
He was born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique of a petit bourgeois family. He attended the Nantes Lycée, where, in 1877, he developed a close friendship with Jules Verne.[1] He studied law, and soon went into politics, associating himself with the most advanced movements, writing articles for the Syndicalist journal Le Peuple, and directing the Lanterne for some time. From this he passed to the Petite République, leaving it to found L'Humanité, in collaboration with Jean Jaurès.[2]
Activism
At the same time he was prominent in the movement for the formation of trade unions, and at the congress of workers at Nantes in 1894, he secured the adoption of the labor union idea against the adherents of Jules Guesde. From that time, Briand was one of the leaders of the French Socialist Party. In 1902, after several unsuccessful attempts, he was elected deputy. He declared himself a strong partisan of the union of the Left in what was known as the Bloc, to check the reactionary Deputies of the Right.[2]
From the beginning of his career in the Chamber of Deputies, Briand was occupied with the question of the separation of church and state. He was appointed the reporter of the commission charged with the preparation of the 1905 law on separation, and his report at once marked him out as one of the coming leaders. He succeeded in carrying his project through with but slight modifications, and without dividing the parties upon whose support he relied.[2]
He was the principal author of the law of separation, but, not content with preparing it; he wished to apply it as well. The ministry of Maurice Rouvier was allowing disturbances during the taking of inventories of church property, a clause of the law for which Briand was not responsible. Consequently, he accepted the portfolio of Public Instruction and Worship in the Sarrien ministry (1906). So far as the Chamber was concerned, his success was complete. But the acceptance of a position in a bourgeois ministry led to his exclusion from the Unified Socialist Party (March 1906). As opposed to Jaurès, he contended that the Socialists should co-operate actively with the Radicals in all matters of reform, and not stand aloof to await the complete fulfillment of their ideals.[2] He himself was atheist.[3][4]
He became a freemason in the lodge Le Trait d'Union in July 1887 while the lodge did not record his name in spite of his repeated requests.[5] The lodge declared "unworthy" to him on 6 September 1889.[6] In 1895 he joined the lodge Les Chevaliers du Travail that was established in 1893.[5]
Prime Minister of France
Portrait of Aristide Briand
Pre-War
Briand served as Minister of Justice under Clemenceau in 1908-9, before succeeding Clemenceau as Prime Minister on 24 July 1909, serving until 2 March 1911. In social policy, Briand's first ministry was notable for the passage of a bill in April 1910 for workers' and farmers' pensions.[7] That same year, compulsory sickness and old-age insurance was introduced for 8 million rural and urban workers. However, a law court decision in 1912 that questioned the legality of compulsion "enabled a large proportion of employers and workers to evade the law."[8]
Briand again served as Minister of Justice 1912-13 under the premiership of the rightwinger Raymond Poincaré (soon to become President of the Republic), before again becoming Prime Minister for a few months from 21 January 1913 until 22 March 1913.
First World War
1914-15
At the end of August 1914, following the outbreak of the First World War, Briand again became Minister of Justice when René Viviani reconstructed his ministry. In the winter of 1914-15 Briand was one of those who pushed for an expedition to Salonika, in the hope of helping Serbia, and perhaps bringing Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Italy into the war as a pro-French bloc, which would also act as a barrier to future Russian expansion in the Balkans. He got on well with Lloyd George, who was also, contrary to military advice, keen for operations in the Balkans, and had a long talk with him on 4 February 1915. Briand was the main mover in persuading Maurice Sarrail to accept the Salonika command in August 1915.[9]
In October 1915 following an unsuccessful French offensive and the entry of Bulgaria, Briand again became Prime Minister (29 October 1915), succeeding René Viviani. He also became Foreign Minister for the first time, a post held by Théophile Delcassé until the final weeks of the previous government. He was also pledged to "unité de front", not just between the military and Parliament but also closer links with the other Allies, a pledge met with "prolonged, thunderous applause" by the deputies.[10]
Draft proposals for Allied cooperation, prepared by Lord Esher and Maurice Hankey were on the table by the time British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith visited Paris on 17 November (mainly to discuss Greece, and only his second wartime talks with France; the first had been with Viviani in July 1915).[10]
The opening weeks of Briand's ministry required him to broker an agreement between General Gallieni, the new War Minister, and General Joffre, newly (2 December) promoted to "Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies" (generalissimo) over all theatres apart from North Africa.[11][12]
1916
In the poisonous atmosphere after the opening of the German attack at Verdun (21 February 1916), Gallieni read an angry report at the Council of Ministers on 7 March criticising Joffre's conduct of operations over the last eighteen months and demanding ministerial control, then resigned. He was falsely suspected of wanting to launch a military takeover of the government.[13] Briand knew that publication of the report would damage morale and might bring down the government. Gallieni was persuaded to remain in office until a replacement had been agreed.[14]General Roques was appointed after it had been ensured that Joffre had no objections.[15]
The first formal Allied conference met in Paris on 26 March 1916 (Italy did not participate) but initially made little impact, perhaps because Briand had vetoed the British suggestion of a permanent secretariat,[16] or perhaps because there had been three informal sets of Anglo-French talks in the last quarter of 1915, one of which, the Chantilly meeting, had already seen strategy plans drawn up.[10]
Late in March 1916 Joffre and Briand blocked the withdrawal of five British divisions from Salonika. Briand was widely suspected of wanting to make his mistress Princess George Queen of Greece.[17] In the spring of 1916 Briand urged Sarrail to take the offensive in the Balkans to take some of the heat off Verdun, although the British, preoccupied with the upcoming Somme offensive, declined to send further troops and Sarrail's offensive that summer was not a success.[18] Briand also attended the conference at Saleux on 31 May 1916 about the upcoming Anglo-French offensive on the Somme, with President Poincaré (on whose train it was held), General Foch (commander, Army Group North) and the British Commander-in-Chief General Haig.[19]
The first Secret Session of the Chamber of Deputies was held in June 1916 to discuss the shortcomings of the defence at Verdun. The government won a vote of confidence but with a clause demanding "effective supervision" of the army. The Parliamentary Army Commission elected Abel Ferry as a commissioner (1 August). By October Ferry was presenting his fourth report on army railways, to Joffre's fury.[20]
Late in 1916 Roques had been sent on a fact-finding mission to Salonika after Britain, Italy and Russia had pushed for the dismissal of the theatre commander Sarrail. To Briand's and Joffre's surprise, Roques returned recommending that Sarrail be reinforced and that Sarrail no longer report to Joffre. Coming on the back of the disappointing results of the Somme campaign and the defeat of Romania, Roques' report further discredited Briand and Joffre and added to the Parliamentary Deputies' demands for a closed session.[21] In November Ferry presented a report on the shortage of manpower. A secret session was held on 21 November about calling up the Class of 1918[22] followed by another a week later.[20]
On 27 November Briand proposed that Joffre be effectively demoted to commander-in-chief in northern France, with both he and Sarrail reporting to the War Minister, although he withdrew this proposal after Joffre threatened resignation. The Closed Session began on 28 November and lasted until 7 December. Briand had little choice but to make concessions to preserve his government, and in a speech of 29 November he promised to repeal Joffre's promotion of December 1915 and in vague terms to appoint a general as technical adviser to the government. Briand survived a confidence vote by 344-160 (six months earlier he had won a confidence vote 440-80).[21]
Reconstructed government
On 13 December Briand formed a new government, reducing the size of the Council of Ministers from 23 to 10 and replacing Roques with General Lyautey. That day his government survived a vote of confidence by 30 votes, and Joffre was appointed "general-in-chief of the French armies, technical adviser to the government, consultative member of the War Committee" (he was persuaded to accept by Briand, but soon found that he had been stripped of real power and asked to be relieved altogether on 26 December), with Nivelle replacing him as commander-in-chief of the Armies of the North and Northeast.[23]
A Senate Secret Session on 21 December attacked Briand's plans for a smaller war cabinet as "yet another level of bureaucracy"; on 23 December Briand pledged that he would continue to push for a "permanent Allied bureau" to secure constant cooperation between the Allied nations.[24] Briand's reduced War Cabinet was formed in imitation of the small executive body formed by Lloyd George, just appointed Prime Minister of Britain, but in practice Briand's often met just prior to meetings of the main Cabinet. Painlevé declined the job of War Minister as he would have preferred Petain as commander-in-chief rather than the inexperienced Nivelle.[25] Like President Poincaré Briand had thought Petain too cautious to be suitable.[26]
Nivelle's appointment caused great friction between the British and French high commands, after Lloyd George attempted to have Haig placed under Nivelle's command at the Calais Conference in January. Briand only reluctantly agreed to attend another allied conference in London (12–13 March 1917) to resolve the matter.[27] Briand resigned as Prime Minister on 20 March 1917 as a result of disagreements over the prospective Nivelle Offensive, to be succeeded by Alexandre Ribot.
1920s
Briand returned to power in 1921. He supervised the French role in the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–22. Three factors guided the French strategy and necessitated a Mediterranean focus: the French navy needed to carry a great many goods, the Mediterranean was the axis of chief interest, and a supply of oil was essential. The primary goal was to defend French North Africa, and Briand made practical choices, for naval policy was a reflection of overall foreign policy. The Conference agreed on the American proposal that capital ships be limited to a ratio of 5 to 5 to 3 for the United States, Britain, and Japan, with Italy and France allocated 1.7 each. France's participation reflected its need to deal with its diminishing power and reduced human, material, and financial resources.[28]
Briand's efforts to come to an agreement over reparations with the Germans failed in the wake of German intransigence, and he was succeeded by the more bellicose Raymond Poincaré. In the wake of the Ruhr Crisis, however, Briand's more conciliatory style became more acceptable, and he returned to the Quai d'Orsay in 1925. He would remain foreign minister until his death in 1932. During this time, he was a member of 14 cabinets, four of which he headed himself in 1925-1926 and 1929.
Briand negotiated the Briand-Ceretti Agreement with the Vatican, giving the French government a role in the appointment of Catholic bishops.
Kellogg–Briand Pact
Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
Aristide Briand received the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize together with Gustav Stresemann of Germany for the Locarno Treaties[29] (Austen Chamberlain of the United Kingdom had received a share of the Peace Prize a year earlier for the same agreement[30]).
A 1927 proposal by Briand and United States Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg for a universal pact outlawing war led the following year to the Pact of Paris, aka the Kellogg–Briand Pact.[31]
Briand Plan for European union
As foreign minister Briand formulated an original proposal for a new economic union of Europe.[32] Described as Briand's Locarno diplomacy and as an aspect of Franco-German rapprochement, it was his answer to Germany's quick economic recovery and future political power. Briand made his proposals in a speech in favor of a European Union in the League of Nations on 5 September 1929, and in 1930, in his "Memorandum on the Organization of a Regime of European Federal Union" for the Government of France.[33]
The idea was to provide a framework to contain France's former enemy while preserving as much of the 1919 Versailles settlement as possible. The Briand plan entailed the economic collaboration of the great industrial areas of Europe and the provision of political security to Eastern Europe against Soviet threats. The basis was economic cooperation, but his fundamental concept was political, for it was political power that would determine economic choices. The plan, under the Memorandum on the Organization of a System of European Federal Union, was in the end presented as a French initiative to the League of Nations. With the death of his principal supporter, German foreign minister Gustav Stresemann, and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, Briand's plan was never adopted but it suggested an economic framework for developments after World War II that eventually resulted in the European Union.[34]
In evaluating his internationalism, historian Douglas Houston concludes:
- Briand's internationalism is easy to deride; nothing he achieved was durable, and his aim seemed no more than old-fashioned security fired by a personal ambition he made little effort to hide. Yet no one worked harder or more imaginatively to give the new international system life. His internationalism sprang from the realization that France could not be secure until everyone else was. He may have embraced principle for reasons of Realpolitik, but there is little doubt that he became convinced of the justice of his cause. [35]
Governments
Briand's first Government, 24 July 1909 – 3 November 1910
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of the Interior and Worship
Stéphen Pichon – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jean Brun – Minister of War
Georges Cochery – Minister of Finance
René Viviani – Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
Louis Barthou – Minister of Justice
Auguste Boué de Lapeyrère – Minister of Marine
Gaston Doumergue – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Joseph Ruau – Minister of Agriculture
Georges Trouillot – Minister of Colonies
Alexandre Millerand – Minister of Public Works, Posts, and Telegraphs
Jean Dupuy – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Briand's second Government, 3 November 1910 – 2 March 1911
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of the Interior and Worship
Stéphen Pichon – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jean Brun – Minister of War
Louis Lucien Klotz – Minister of Finance
Louis Lafferre – Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
Théodore Girard – Minister of Justice
Auguste Boué de Lapeyrère – Minister of Marine
Maurice Faure – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Maurice Raynaud – Minister of Agriculture
Jean Morel – Minister of Colonies
Louis Puech – Minister of Public Works, Posts, and Telegraphs
Jean Dupuy – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Changes
- 23 February 1911 – Briand succeeds Brun as interim Minister of War.
Briand's third and fourth Governments, 21 January – 22 March 1913
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of the Interior
Charles Jonnart – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Eugène Étienne – Minister of War
Louis Lucien Klotz – Minister of Finance
René Besnard – Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
Louis Barthou – Minister of Justice
Pierre Baudin – Minister of Marine
Théodore Steeg – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Fernand David – Minister of Agriculture
Jean Morel – Minister of Colonies
Jean Dupuy – Minister of Public Works, Posts, and Telegraphs
Gabriel Guist'hau – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Briand's fifth Government, 29 October 1915 – 12 December 1916
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Joseph Galliéni – Minister of War
Louis Malvy – Minister of the Interior
Alexandre Ribot – Minister of Finance
Albert Métin – Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
René Viviani – Minister of Justice
Lucien Lacaze – Minister of Marine
Paul Painlevé – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Jules Méline – Minister of Agriculture
Gaston Doumergue – Minister of Colonies
Marcel Sembat – Minister of Public Works
Étienne Clémentel – Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts, and Telegraphs
Léon Bourgeois – Minister of State
Denys Cochin – Minister of State
Émile Combes – Minister of State
Charles de Freycinet – Minister of State
Jules Guesde – Minister of State
Changes
- 15 November 1915 – Paul Painlevé becomes Minister of Inventions for the National Defense in addition to being Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts.
- 16 March 1916 – Pierre Auguste Roques succeeds Galliéni as Minister of War
Briand's sixth Government, 12 December 1916 – 20 March 1917
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Hubert Lyautey – Minister of War
Albert Thomas – Minister of Armaments and War Manufacturing
Louis Malvy – Minister of the Interior
Alexandre Ribot – Minister of Finance
Étienne Clémentel – Minister of Commerce, Industry, Labour, Social Security Provisions, Agriculture, Posts, and Telegraphs
René Viviani – Minister of Justice, Public Instruction, and Fine Arts
Lucien Lacaze – Minister of Marine
Édouard Herriot – Minister of Supply, Public Works, and Transport
Gaston Doumergue – Minister of Colonies
Changes
- 15 March 1917 – Lucien Lacaze succeeds Lyautey as interim Minister of War.
Briand's seventh Government, 16 January 1921 – 15 January 1922
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Louis Barthou – Minister of War
Pierre Marraud – Minister of the Interior
Paul Doumer – Minister of Finance
Charles Daniel-Vincent – Minister of Labour
Laurent Bonnevay – Minister of Justice
Gabriel Guist'hau – Minister of Marine
Léon Bérard – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
André Maginot – Minister of War Pensions, Grants, and Allowances
Edmond Lefebvre du Prey – Minister of Agriculture
Albert Sarraut – Minister of Colonies
Yves Le Trocquer – Minister of Public Works
Georges Leredu – Minister of Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
Lucien Dior – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Louis Loucheur – Minister of Liberated Regions
Briand's eighth Government, 28 November 1925 – 9 March 1926
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Paul Painlevé – Minister of War
Camille Chautemps – Minister of the Interior
Louis Loucheur – Minister of Finance
Antoine Durafour – Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
René Renoult – Minister of Justice
Georges Leygues – Minister of Marine
Édouard Daladier – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Paul Jourdain – Minister of Pensions
Jean Durand – Minister of Agriculture
Léon Perrier – Minister of Colonies
Anatole de Monzie – Minister of Public Works
Charles Daniel-Vincent – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Changes
- 16 December 1925 – Paul Doumer succeeds Loucheur as Minister of Finance.
Briand's ninth Government, 9 March – 23 June 1926
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Paul Painlevé – Minister of War
Louis Malvy – Minister of the Interior
Raoul Péret – Minister of Finance
Antoine Durafour – Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
Pierre Laval – Minister of Justice
Georges Leygues – Minister of Marine
Lucien Lamoureux – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Paul Jourdain – Minister of Pensions
Jean Durand – Minister of Agriculture
Léon Perrier – Minister of Colonies
Anatole de Monzie – Minister of Public Works
Charles Daniel-Vincent – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Changes
- 10 April 1926 – Jean Durand succeeds Malvy as Minister of the Interior. François Binet succeeds Durand as Minister of Agriculture.
Briand's tenth Government, 23 June – 19 July 1926
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Adolphe Guillaumat – Minister of War
Jean Durand – Minister of the Interior
Joseph Caillaux – Minister of Finance
Antoine Durafour – Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
Pierre Laval – Minister of Justice
Georges Leygues – Minister of Marine
Bertrand Nogaro – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Paul Jourdain – Minister of Pensions
François Binet – Minister of Agriculture
Léon Perrier – Minister of Colonies
Charles Daniel-Vincent – Minister of Public Works
Fernand Chapsal – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Briand's eleventh Government, 29 July – 3 November 1929
- Aristide Briand – President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Paul Painlevé – Minister of War
André Tardieu – Minister of the Interior
Henry Chéron – Minister of Finance
Louis Loucheur – Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
Louis Barthou – Minister of Justice
Georges Leygues – Minister of Marine
Laurent Eynac – Minister of Air
Pierre Marraud – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Louis Antériou – Minister of Pensions
Jean Hennessy – Minister of Agriculture
André Maginot – Minister of Colonies
Pierre Forgeot – Minister of Public Works
Georges Bonnefous – Minister of Commerce and Industry
See also
- Interwar France
- List of people on the cover of Time Magazine: 1920s
Notes
^ Aristide Briand – Biography
^ abcd
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^ https://books.google.com/books?id=CKdHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=Aristide+Briand+atheist&source=bl&ots=xT8n4irVq5&sig=lb_Z---tbfRbRF8ulljYGUmqmMc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0hqqgy-rOAhWPMx4KHf2gDP4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Aristide%20Briand%20atheist&f=false
^ http://www.et97.com/view/824752.htm
^ ab Osterrieder, Markus (2010). "Der prophezeite Krieg" (PDF) (in German). CeltoSlavica. p. 10. Retrieved 10 November 2014.Zwar war er im Juli 1887 am Tag der Initiation in die Loge Le Trait d'Union nicht anwesend, obwohl er mehrfach den Antrag auf Aufnahme gestellt hatte, trat jedoch 1895 der sozialistisch orientierten, antikapitalistischen und antiparlamentarischen Loge Les Chevaliers du Travail (gegründet 1893) bei, [. . .] Vgl Michel Gaudart de SOULAGES, Hubert LAMANT: Dictionnaire des francs-maçons français. Paris 1995, S. 197-198; Henri CASTEIX: Aristide Briand et la franc-maçonnerie. Histoire sans passion de la franc-maçonnerie française. Paris 1987, S. 229-236; Encyclopédie de la franc-maçonnerie. Hrsg. v. Eric SAUNIER. Paris 1999, S. 146f.; Dictionnaire de la franc-‐maçonnerie. Hrsg. v. Daniel LIGOU. Paris 2004, S. 243-245.
^ Mayeur, Jean Marie (2003). Les parlementaires de la troisième république (in French). Publications de la Sorbonne. p. 114. ISBN 9782859444846. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
^ http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/aristide-briand
^ Foundations of the Welfare State, 2nd Edition by Pat Thane, published 1996
^ Greenhalgh 2014, p.100 &108
^ abc Greenhalgh 2005, p. 36 & 38-9
^ There had already been friction between the two men when Gallieni, Joffre's former superior, had been recalled from retirement to be Military governor of Paris during the First Battle of the Marne earlier in the war.
^ Doughty 2005, pp229-32
^ Clayton 2003, pp97-8
^ Doughty 2005, pp284-5
^ Doughty 2005, p285
^ French ministers' meetings were not then minuted, whereas in the UK at that time the Prime Minister had to write a report of meetings to the King, until the end of the year when formal agenda and minutes, drawn up by Hankey, were introduced by Lloyd George
^ Palmer 1998, p55
^ Greenhalgh 2014, p.159
^ Greenhalgh 2005, p.50
^ ab Greenhalgh 2014, p. 167-8
^ ab Doughty 2005, p318-20
^ i.e. teenagers who would not normally have been liable for military service until that year
^ Doughty 2005, p320-1
^ Greenhalgh 2005, p.137
^ Greenhalgh 2014, p.172
^ Greenhalgh 2014, p.170
^ Greenhalgh 2005, p.139
^ Blatt, Joel (1993). "France and the Washington conference". Diplomacy & Statecraft. 4 (3): 192. doi:10.1080/09592299308405900.
^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1926". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1925". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
^ "The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928". Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Office of the Historian, United States Department of State. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
^ Navari, Cornelia (1992). "Origins of the Briand plan". Diplomacy & Statecraft. 3: 74. doi:10.1080/09592299208405844.
^ Briand, Aristide (1930-05-01). Memorandum on the Organization of a System of Federal European Union. France. Ministry of Foreign Affairs - via World Digital Library. Retrieved 2014-06-19.
^ D. Weigall and P. Stirk, eds., The Origins and Development of the European Community (Leicester University Press, 1992), pp. 11–15
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Douglas W. Houston, "Briand, Aristede Pierre Henri" in Warren F. Kuehl, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists (1983) p 111-13.
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References
Adam, George Jeffreys (1922). "Briand, Aristide". In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. 30 (12th ed.). London & New York.
Bernard, Philippe; Dubief, Henri; Forster, Thony (1985). The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914–1938. The Cambridge History of Modern France. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-35854-X.
Doughty, Robert A. (2005). Pyrrhic Victory. Havard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02726-8.
Greenhalgh, Elizabeth (2005). Victory Through Coalition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-09629-4.
Greenhalgh, Elizabeth (2014). The French Army and the First World War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-60568-8.
Mayeur, Jean-Marie; Rebirioux, Madeleine; Foster, J. R. (1984). The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871–1914. The Cambridge History of Modern France. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 2-7351-0067-7.
Palmer, Alan (1998). Victory 1918. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-84124-6.
Wright, Julian (2005). "Social Reform, State Reform, and Aristide Briand's Moment of Hope in France, 1909–1910" (PDF). French Historical Studies. 28 (1): 31–67. doi:10.1215/00161071-28-1-31.
Georges Suarez's multi-volume biography of Briand (1938–52) is of particular value to historians as it cites documents lost in 1940.[1]
External links
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Newspaper clippings about Aristide Briand in the 20th Century Press Archives of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW)
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| Preceded by Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin | Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts 1906–1908 | Succeeded by Gaston Doumergue |
Minister of Worship 1906–1911 | Succeeded by Ernest Monis | |
| Preceded by Edmond Guyot-Dessaigne | Minister of Justice 1908–1909 | Succeeded by Louis Barthou |
| Preceded by Georges Clemenceau | Prime Minister of France 1909–1911 | Succeeded by Ernest Monis |
Minister of the Interior 1909–1911 | ||
| Preceded by Jean Brun | interim Minister of War 1911 | Succeeded by Maurice Berteaux |
| Preceded by Jean Cruppi | Minister of Justice 1912–1913 | Succeeded by Louis Barthou |
| Preceded by Raymond Poincaré | Prime Minister of France 1913 | |
| Preceded by Théodore Steeg | Minister of the Interior 1913 | Succeeded by Louis Lucien Klotz |
| Preceded by Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin | Minister of Justice 1914–1915 | Succeeded by René Viviani |
| Preceded by René Viviani | Prime Minister of France 1915–1917 | Succeeded by Alexandre Ribot |
Minister of Foreign Affairs 1915–1917 | ||
| Preceded by Georges Leygues | Prime Minister of France 1921–1922 | Succeeded by Raymond Poincaré |
Minister of Foreign Affairs 1921–1922 | ||
| Preceded by Paul Painlevé | Prime Minister of France 1925–1926 | Succeeded by Édouard Herriot |
| Preceded by Édouard Herriot | Minister of Foreign Affairs 1925–1926 | |
Minister of Foreign Affairs 1926–1932 | Succeeded by Pierre Laval | |
| Preceded by Raymond Poincaré | Prime Minister of France 1929 | Succeeded by André Tardieu |
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