Georges Clemenceau

Born

September 28, 1841

Died

November 24, 1929 (aged 88)

Known as

politician, journalist, physician, screenwriter, novelist, head of government

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.

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