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Definition of Clemenceau

1. Noun. French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clemenceau

Literary usage of Clemenceau

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1920)
"37 GEORGES Clemenceau, PREMIER or FRANCE Little was left unsaid during the war of the public and private life of Clemenceau, his energy, notwithstanding his ..."

2. Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries by George Washington Moon (1891)
"However, the accusations led to a duel between Dr. Clemenceau and M. le commandant de ... Dr. Clemenceau was prosecuted for this affair a month later, ..."

3. Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, Containing Biographical by Thompson Cooper (1884)
"On this occasion the Central Committee of the Communists, which was sitting at the Hôtel de Ville, resolved that Dr. Clemenceau should be arrested ; but he ..."

4. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"Who can forget the bitter weeks when day after day Clemenceau appeared in the Chambre ... Clemenceau settled all that by having written in the armistice the ..."

5. Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse (1922)
"THE WRITINGS OF M. Clemenceau IN the year 1893, after a succession of events which are still remembered with emotion, M. Clemenceau fell from political ..."

6. The Peace Conference Day by Day: A Presidential Pilgrimage Leading to the by Charles Thaddeus Thompson (1920)
"It was Clemenceau who said of the President's Fourteen Points: "Even the Bon Dieu got along ... The French credit Clemenceau and Foch with winning the war, ..."

7. The Big Four and Others of the Peace Conference by Robert Lansing (1921)
"I Clemenceau OF the four heads of states M. Clemenceau, the president of the ... But without the background of accomplishment M. Clemenceau possessed a ..."

8. A Journal of the Great War by Charles Gates Dawes (1921)
"The Com- mander-in-Chief at this critical time intervened with his usual good judgment, force, and success and obtained from M. Clemenceau his signature to ..."

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