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Born February 13, 1855 • Brussels • Belgium
Died April 28, 1922 (aged 67) • Paris • France • (Died on this day)
Title / Office president (1920-1920), France

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Édouard Herriot
French statesman
Alexandre Ribot
premier of France
Cambon, Jules
Jules Cambon
French diplomat
Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta
French statesman
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian
Léon Blum.
Léon Blum
premier of France
Poincaré, Raymond
Raymond Poincaré
president of France
Pierre Laval.
Pierre Laval
French politician and statesman
Briand, 1913
Aristide Briand
prime minister of France
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Patrice de Mac-Mahon
Patrice de Mac-Mahon
president of France
Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux
French statesman
Georges Bidault
prime minister of France
Millerand, Alexandre
Alexandre Millerand
president of France
Paul Reynaud, 1940.
Paul Reynaud
premier of France
Jules Simon
Jules Simon
French politician
William Henry Waddington
French diplomat and politician
Ferry
Jules Ferry
French statesman
Delcassé, Théophile
Théophile Delcassé
French statesman