Georges Clemenceau
1841–1929 · statesman, journalist · France
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end of the First World War. He was a key figure of the Independent Radicals, advocating for the separation of church and state, as well as the amnesty of the Communards exiled to New Caledonia.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1841
- 18487 years old
- 185211 years old
- 185211 years oldCézanne and Zola meet at school
- 187029 years old
- 187433 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibition
- 187534 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 188645 years oldZola publishes L'Œuvre
- 189857 years oldZola publishes “J'accuse…!”chose the headline
- 192988 years oldDies
Connected to
- CM
Claude Monet · friends
1884 Clemenceau bought Monet's paintings by 1884 and stayed a friend Monet confided in about his work.
Source: wikipedia:Claude_Monet - ÉZ
Émile Zola · author
1898 Zola publishes “J'accuse…!”. Zola's open letter on the Dreyfus affair fills the front page of L'Aurore. Clemenceau, who wrote for the paper, gave it its headline.
Source: wikipedia:J'Accuse…!
