Millerand

[ meel-rahn ]

/ milˈrɑ̃ /

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A·le·xan·dre

[a-lek-sahn-druh], /a lɛkˈsɑ̃ drə/, 1859–1943, president of France 1920–24.

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M. Millerand undertook to lay this document before General Joffre at once.
1914|John French, Viscount of Ypres
Its opponents attributed this to the presence in the cabinet of M. Millerand, who had been ranked as a Socialist.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7|Various
There are altogether too many ifs and ands and pots and pans about Millerand's question.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2|Ian Hamilton
Before this dangerous topic could be reached urgent engagements recalled M. Millerand to Paris.
A Revision of the Treaty|John Maynard Keynes

He was M. Millerand's colleague, and the instigator of his militarist policy.
The Myth of a Guilty Nation|Albert Jay Nock