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BRIAND, ARISTIDE (1862– )

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BRIAND, ARISTIDE (1862– ) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Nantes, of a See also:bourgeois See also:family. He studied See also:law, and while still See also:young took to politics, associating himself with the most advanced movements, See also:writing articles for the anarchist See also:journal Le Peuple, and directing the Lanterne for some See also:time. From this he passed to the Petite Republique, leaving it to found, with See also:Jean See also:Jaures, L'Humanite. At the same time he was prominent in the See also:movement for the formation of labour unions, and at the See also:congress of working men at Nantes in 1894 he secured the See also:adoption of the labour See also:union See also:idea against the adherents of Jules See also:Guesde. From that time, Briand became one of the leaders of the French Socialist party. In 1902, after several unsuccessful attempts, he was elected See also:deputy. He declared himself a strong See also:partisan of the union of the See also:Left in what is known as the Bloc, in See also:order to check the reactionary deputies of the Right. From the beginning of his career in the chamber of deputies, Briand was occupied with the question of the separation of See also:church and See also:state. He was appointed reporter of the See also:commission charged with the preparation of the law, and his masterly See also:report at once marked him out as one of the coming leaders. He succeeded in carrying his project through with but slight modifications, and without dividing the parties upon whose support he relied. He was the See also:principal author of the law of separation, but, not content with preparing • it, he wished to apply it as well, especially as the existing See also:Rouvier See also:ministry allowed disturbances to occur during the taking of inventories of church See also:property, a clause of the law for which Briand was not responsible. Consequently he accepted the See also:portfolio of public instruction and See also:worship in the Sarrien ministry (1go6).

So far as the chamber was concerned his success was See also:

complete. But the See also:acceptance of a portfolio in a bourgeois ministry led to his exclusion from the Unified Socialist party (See also:March 19(36). As opposed to Jaures, he contended that the Socialists should co-operate actively with the Radicals in all matters of reform, and not stand aloof to await the complete fulfilment of their ideals.

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