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Léon Bourgeois , 1851-1925, French statesman and social philosopher. He held cabinet posts, notably the premiership (1895-96) and was a delegate to the first and second Hague peace conferences and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. One of the earliest proponents of the League of Nations, he headed the French delegation in the League. In 1920 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. His influential book, Solidarité (1896), advocated the use of public authority to achieve the solidarity increasingly necessary within and among nations.
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Léon Bourgeois
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Léon Bourgeois , 1851-1925, French statesman and social philosopher. He held cabinet posts, notably the premiership (1895-96) and was... |
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Nobel Prizes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Johannes Stark Jules Bordet C. F. G. Spitteler 1920 Léon Bourgeois Walther Nernst C. E. Guillaume S. A. S. Krogh...Tadeus Reichstein Bertrand Russel, Earl Russell 1951 Léon Jouhaux Edwin M. McMillan Glenn T. Seaborg... |
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League of Nations
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Basis of the League At the close of World War I, such prominent figures as Jan Smuts, Lord Robert Cecil, and Léon Bourgeois advocated a society of nations. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson incorporated the proposal into the Fourteen... |
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Émile Combes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1921, French statesman. An able politician of the left democratic group, he was minister of education under Léon Bourgeois (1895-96) and, succeeding René Waldeck-Rousseau, was (1902-5) premier and minister of interior... |
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...tr. The Miser ); and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670, tr. The...depending more on absurdities, are L'École des maris (1661, tr. The School for Husbands ) and L'École des femmes (1662...the critics, La Critique de l'École des femmes (1663... |
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