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See also:CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES (1841– ) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds, See also:Vendee, on the 28th of See also:September 1841. Having adopted See also:medicine as his profession, he settled in 1869 in Montmartre; and after the revolution of 187o he had become sufficiently well known to be nominated See also:mayor of the 18th See also:arrondissement of See also:Paris (Montmartre)—an unruly See also:district over which it was a difficult task to preside. On the 8th of See also:February 1871 he was elected as a See also:Radical to the See also:National See also:Assembly for the See also:department of the See also:Seine, and voted. against the See also:peace preliminaries. The See also:execution, or rather See also:murder, of Generals Lecomte and See also:Clement See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas by the communists on 18th See also:March, which he vainly tried to prevent, brought him into collision with the central See also:committee sitting at the hotel de ville, and they ordered his See also:arrest, but he escaped; he was accused, however, by various witnesses, at the subsequent trial of the murderers (See also:November 29th), of not having intervened when he might have done, and though he was cleared of this See also:charge it led to a See also:duel, for his See also:share in which he was prosecuted and sentenced to a See also:fine and a fortnight's imprisonment.
Meanwhile, on the loth of March 1871, he had introduced in the National Assembly at See also:Versailles, on behalf of his Radical colleagues, the See also:bill establishing a Paris municipal See also:council of eighty members; but he was not returned himself at the elections of the 26th of March. He tried with the other Paris mayors to mediate between Versailles and the hotel de ville, but failed, and accordingly resigned his mayoralty and his seat in the Assembly, and temporarily gave up politics; but he was elected to the Paris municipal council on the 23rd of See also:July 1871 for the Clignancourt quartier, and retained his seat till 1876, passing through the offices of secretary and See also:vice-See also:president, and becoming president in 1895. In 1876 he stood again for the Chamber of Deputies, and was elected for the 18th arrondissement. He joined the Extreme See also:Left, and his See also:energy and See also:mordant eloquence speedily made him the See also:leader of the Radical See also:section. In 1877, after the Seize See also:Mai (see See also:FRANCE: See also:History), he was one of the republican See also:majority who denounced the See also:Broglie See also:ministry, and he took a leading See also:part in resisting the See also:anti-republican policy of which the Seize Mai incident was a symptom, his demand in 1879 for the See also:indictment of the Broglie ministry bringing him into particular prominence. In 188o he started his newspaper, La See also:Justice, which became the See also:principal See also:organ of Parisian Radical-ism; and from this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time onwards throughout M. See also:Grevy's See also:presidency his reputation as a See also:political critic, and as a destroyer of ministries who yet would not take See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office himself, rapidly See also:grew. He led the Extreme Left in the Chamber. He was an active opponent of M. Jules See also:Ferry's colonial policy and of the Opportunist party, and in 1885 it was his use of the See also:Tongking disaster which principally determined the fall of the Ferry See also:cabinet. At the elections of 1885 he advocated a strong Radical See also:pro-. gramme, and was returned both for his old seat in Paris and for the See also:Var, selecting the latter. Refusing to See also:form a ministry to replace the one he had overthrown, he supported the Right in keeping M. See also:Freycinet in See also:power in 1886, and was responsible for the inclusion of See also:General See also:Boulanger in the Freycinet cabinet as See also:war See also:minister. When Boulanger (q.v.) showed himself as an ambitious pretender, Clemenceau withdrew his support and became a vigorous combatant against the Boulangist See also:movement, though the Radical See also:press and a section of the party continued to patronize the general.
By his exposure of the See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson See also:scandal, and by his See also:personal See also:plain speaking, M. Clemenceau contributed largely to M. Grevy's resignation of the presidency in 1887, having himself declined Grevy's See also:request to form a cabinet on the downfall of that of M. See also:Rouvier; and he was primarily responsible, by advising his followers to See also:vote neither for See also:Floquet, Ferry nor Freycinet, for the See also:election of an "outsider" as president in M. Carriot. He had arrived, however, at the height of his See also:influence, and several factors now contributed to his decline. The split in the Radical party over Boulangism weakened his hands, and its collapse made his help unnecessary to the moderate republicans. A further misfortune occurred in the See also:Panama affair, Clemenceau's relations with See also:Cornelius Herz leading to his being involvedin the general suspicion; and, though he remained the leading spokesman of French Radicalism, his hostility to the See also:Russian See also:alliance so increased his unpopularity that in the election for 1893 he was defeated for the Chamber, after having sat in it continuously since 1876. After his defeat for the Chamber, M. Clemenceau confined his political activities to journalism, his career being further overclouded—so far as any immediate possibility of regaining his old ascendancy was concerned—by the See also:long-See also:drawn-out See also:Dreyfus See also:case, in which he took an active and See also:honourable part as a supporter of M. See also:Zola and an opponent of the anti-Semitic and Nationalist See also:campaign. In 1800 he withdrew from La Justice to found a weekly See also:review, Le Bloc, which lasted until March 1902. On the 6th of See also:April 1902 he was elected senator for the Var, although he had previously continually demanded the suppression of the See also:Senate. He sat with the Socialist Radicals, and vigorously supported the See also:Combes ministry. In See also:June 1903 he undertook the direction of the See also:journal L'Aurore, which he had founded. In it he led the campaign for the revision of the Dreyfus affair, and for the separation of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church and See also:State.
In March 1906 the fall of the Rouvier ministry, owing to the riots provoked by the inventories of church See also:property, at last brought Clemenceau to power as minister c4the interior in the Sarrien cabinet. The strike of miners in the Pas de See also:Calais after the disaster at Courrieres, leading to the See also:threat of disorder on the 1st of May 1906, obliged him to employ the military; and his attitude in the See also:matter alienated the Socialist party, from which he definitely See also:broke in his notable reply in the Chamber to See also:Jean See also:Jaures in June 1906. This speech marked him out as the strong See also:man of the See also:day in French politics; and when the Sarrien ministry resigned in See also:October, he became premier. During 1907 and 1908 his premiership was notable for the way in which the new entente with See also:England was cemented, and for the successful part which France played in See also:European politics, in spite of difficulties with See also:Germany and attacks by the Socialist party in connexion with See also:Morocco (see FRANCE: History). But on July loth, 1909, he was defeated in a discussion in the Chamber on the state of the See also:navy, in which See also:bitter words were exchanged between him and See also:Delcasse; and he at once resigned, being succeeded as premier by M. See also:Briand, with a reconstructed cabinet.
End of Article: CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES (1841– )
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