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Alexandre Millerand

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alexandre Millerand , 1859-1943, French politician, president of France (1920-24). A Socialist member of the chamber of deputies, he was the first Socialist to serve in a bourgeois cabinet; he was (1899-1902) minister of commerce in the ministry of Rene Waldeck-Rousseau. Millerand was sharply criticized by his party for accepting the post and was also censured for supporting antilabor decisions. He was eventually expelled from the Socialist party. Moving further to the right on the political spectrum, he became an ardent nationalist and, as minister of war (1912-13), he attempted to restore the... Read more
Alexandre Millerand
...advocating a revision of the constitution to strengthen the power of the presidency, he was forced to resign by the Cartel des Gauches . He served in the Senate from 1927 to 1940. Alexandre Millerand Alexandre Millerand Alexandre Millerand Read more
(Auguste-Marie-Joseph-) Jean Jaures
...served in the Chamber of Deputies (1885–89, 1893–98, 1902–14) and at first adopted the ideas of Alexandre Millerand . After 1899 the socialists split into two groups, and Jaures headed the French Socialist Party , advocating reconciliation... Read more

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