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Also Known As Louis-Adolphe Thiers
Born April 18, 1797 • Marseille • France
Died September 3, 1877 (aged 80) • Saint-Germain-en-Laye • France
Title / Office president (1871-1873), France • Legislative Assembly (1849-1850), France
Founder Third Republic
Subjects Of Study France
Role In Commune of Paris

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Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Hanotaux, detail of an engraving by Dujardin after a portrait by Benjamin Constant
Gabriel Hanotaux
French statesman and historian
Pyat, lithograph by C. Deshayes
Félix Pyat
French journalist and politician
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
Charles VII
Charles VII
king of France
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta
French statesman
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat
French politician, physician, and journalist
Marc Bloch
French historian
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre
French historian
Édouard Herriot
Édouard Herriot
French statesman
Jules Michelet, detail of an oil painting by Thomas Couture; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.
Jules Michelet
French historian
Léon Blum.
Léon Blum
premier of France
François de Lorraine, 2 duc de Guise
French noble
Poincaré, Raymond
Raymond Poincaré
president of France
Pierre Laval.
Pierre Laval
French politician and statesman
Desmoulins, Camille
Camille Desmoulins
French journalist
François Guizot
François Guizot
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