Briand

[ bree-ahnd; French bree-ahn ]

noun

1. A·ri·stide [ar, -, uh, -steed, a, -, r, ee-, steed], 1862–1932, French statesman: minister of France 11 times; Nobel Peace Prize 1926.

Briand

/ briɑ̃ /

noun

1. BriandAristide18621932MFrenchPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister Aristide (aristid). 1862–1932, French socialist statesman: prime minister of France 11 times. He was responsible for the separation of Church and State (1905) and he advocated a United States of Europe. Nobel peace prize 1926

Example Sentences

Indeed, one can hardly restrain his tears as he reads the sorrowful complaints of Combes, Briand, Clemenceau and the others.

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While M. Combes would cast the blame on the liquidators, M. Briand fixed it on the method of liquidation.

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But the versatile Briand with a sympathetic "Bloc" has already thrown dust into eyes of the French people.

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All of which admissions the versatile Briand proceeded to falsify almost in the same speech.

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Briand and Viviani, themselves future ministers, persuaded the majority not to go so far.

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