Aristide Briand
| Aristide Briand | |
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| 55th Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 29 July 1929 – 2 November 1929 |
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| Preceded by | Raymond Poincaré |
| Succeeded by | André Tardieu |
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In office 28 November 1925 – 20 July 1926 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Painlevé |
| Succeeded by | Édouard Herriot |
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In office 16 January 1921 – 15 January 1922 |
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| Preceded by | Georges Leygues |
| Succeeded by | Raymond Poincaré |
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In office 29 October 1915 – 20 March 1917 |
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| Preceded by | René Viviani |
| Succeeded by | Alexandre Ribot |
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In office 21 January 1913 – 22 March 1913 |
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| Preceded by | Raymond Poincaré |
| Succeeded by | Louis Barthou |
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In office 24 July 1909 – 2 March 1911 |
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| Preceded by | Georges Clemenceau |
| Succeeded by | Ernest Monis |
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| Born | 28 March 1862 Nantes, France |
| Died | 7 March 1932 (aged 69) Paris, France |
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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.
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. 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.
At the same time he was prominent in the movement for the formation of trade unions, and at the congress of working men 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, in order to check the reactionary Deputies of the Right.
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 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.
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