Clemenceau, Georges

Cultural  

1. A French political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the premier of France at the end of World War I and afterward. He presided at the peace conference after the war, which produced the Treaty of Versailles. Less forgiving than the American president, Woodrow Wilson, Clemenceau wanted a peace treaty that would punish Germany for having started the war and would compensate France for its losses.

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Example Sentences

Clemenceau, Georges, 53, 401, 403, 405, 407, 420, 423.

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.

Clemenceau, Georges, 78, 83, 97, 98, 109, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 178.

From A History of the Third French Republic by Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad)