minister to draw up a subtle order of seniority. The first holder was Aristide Briand in 1914, chosen at the start of World War I by René Viviani; as the...

Voltaire; poet Victor Hugo; politicians Léon Gambetta, Jean Jaurès and Aristide Briand; and writers Alphonse de Lamartine and Albert Camus. Prior to 1791...

navy, then for Public Instruction and Fine Arts from 1908, replacing Aristide Briand. In this capacity, on 4 June 1908, he delivered a speech on behalf...

Raymond Poincaré, Aristide Briand and Tardieu had offered ministerial posts to Herriot's Radicals but to no avail. Besides Briand, André Maginot, Pierre-Étienne...

graves. As president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Flandin warned Aristide Briand in September 1916 that, "Our enemies could not find a subject more...

joined Spain during the Rif War. From 1925 until his death in 1932, Aristide Briand, as Prime Minister during five short intervals, directed French foreign...

(1847-1919), baroness Jules-Albert de Dion (1856-1946), automotive pioneer Aristide Briand (1862-1932), 1926 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate Claude Cahun (1894-1954)...

States Secretary of State, Colin Powell, in his bid to oust Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power. Villepin's most famous assignment as Chirac's foreign minister...

Rhône. During the First World War, in May 1917, he was appointed by Aristide Briand to convince the new Russian government, led by Alexander Kerensky,...

were calmed, Franco-German relations were also calmed. Stresemann and Aristide Briand received the Nobel Peace Prize.[citation needed] The refusal to admit...