Centre-right premier three times in 1929–1932 who later campaigned against the parliamentary system
Born in Paris in 1876, he left the diplomatic service and made his name as foreign-affairs editor of Le Temps. Elected deputy for Seine-et-Oise in 1914 as a candidate of the Democratic Republican Alliance, he went to the front and was wounded in 1916. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 he was Clemenceau's right-hand man in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles. Becoming President of the Council in November 1929, he pursued public works, social insurance and free secondary schooling, and headed three governments up to 1932. From 1934 he attacked the parliamentary regime and called for a stronger executive, withdrew from politics to write in Menton, and died there in 1945.
Activities and affiliations
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1914–1936
Legislature and state representation
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1914–
Democratic Republican Alliance
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1919–1934
France state institutionsPresident of the Council of MinistersHeads of state and government of FranceMain
Government and administration
Career Timeline
- 1914–1924Deputy for Seine-et-Oise
- 1919.11.08–1920.01Minister of Liberated Regions
- 1926–1936Deputy for the Territoire de Belfort
- 1928–1929.11Minister of the Interior
- 1929.11.03–1930.02.17President of the Council of Ministers
- 1930.03.02–12.04President of the Council of Ministers
- 1932.02.20–06.03President of the Council of Ministers