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Georges Clemenceau Presentation
Georges Clemenceau Presentation
I was certainly best remembered today for my resolute wartime service as “The Tiger” and “Father
Victory”
The young me studied medicine and helped publish a newspaper called the Labour in 1862 which
it was critical of the regime so I spent a couple months un jail for my beliefs.
After that, I spent the late 1860s in the US as a journalist & French teacher. But when French
Prussian war broke out, I returned to France.
I was trying to avoid the civil war but if i could not i could at least defend the republic.
I thought Germany was preparing for war, and felt France should do the same as well
My career was derailed for a decade when a large-scale press attack by my opponents accused
me of corruption
After all, I became minister of the Interior in March and Prime Minister in October
I saw my main goal as Prime Minister as resorting order and confidence to the republic and called
myself “The First Cop of France” plus to the socialists I remained “The strikebreaker”
It was me who introduced the scientific police, mobile brigades, and water cannons instead of
guns to deal with rioters
I was determined to see France victorious, no matter the cost. I believed that if France lost it
would become a simple satellite of Germany with no army and no power
It was me who was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles, the peach treat that
brought world war I to the end, at Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Therefore, after the world war I, I wanted revenge and to punish Germany to return Alsace
Lorraine to us, an independent Rhineland, no league of nations, Germany to pay huge reparations
or the damage and losses caused, the disbandment f Germany Army that Germany would never
be strong enough to attack us again.
I was the one who forged closer ties with Britain and settled Morocco crisis
I persuaded the Allied to agree to a unified military command under Ferdinand Foch