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    1921 to 15 January 1922 in the 7th Aristide Briand government. Minister for public instruction and fine arts from 11 November 1928 to 13 December 1930...
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  • minister to draw up a subtle order of seniority. The first holder was Aristide Briand in 1914, chosen at the start of World War I by René Viviani; as the...
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    navy, then for Public Instruction and Fine Arts from 1908, replacing Aristide Briand. In this capacity, on 4 June 1908, he delivered a speech on behalf...
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    Voltaire; poet Victor Hugo; politicians Léon Gambetta, Jean Jaurès and Aristide Briand; and writers Alphonse de Lamartine and Albert Camus. Prior to 1791...
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    Raymond Poincaré, Aristide Briand and Tardieu had offered ministerial posts to Herriot's Radicals but to no avail. Besides Briand, André Maginot, Pierre-Étienne...
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    States Secretary of State, Colin Powell, in his bid to oust Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power.[citation needed] Villepin's most famous assignment as Chirac's...
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    (1847–1919), baroness Jules-Albert de Dion (1856–1946), automotive pioneer Aristide Briand (1862–1932), 1926 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate Claude Cahun (1894–1954)...
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    joined Spain during the Rif War. From 1925 until his death in 1932, Aristide Briand, as Prime Minister during five short intervals, directed French foreign...
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    agreed to renounce war as an instrument of policy, and to the plan of Aristide Briand, who proposed a federal European Union in 1930. In a note in 1937,...
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    Rhône. During the First World War, in May 1917, he was appointed by Aristide Briand to convince the new Russian government, led by Alexander Kerensky,...
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