Clemenceau replied that he was sure the Senate would ratify both and that he had inserted Article 429 into the treaty, providing for " new arrangements concerning the Rhine ".

Lloyd George replied: “ Well, was not that always our traditional policy ?” He was joking but after reflection Clemenceau took it seriously.

The Irish envoys ' final " Demand for Recognition " in a letter to Clemenceau, the Chairman, was not replied to.

The Triple Entente ( from French entente " good will ") was the name given to the alliance between France ( lead by Georges Clemenceau ), Britain ( lead by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ), and Russia ( lead by Nicholas II ) after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on August 31, 1907.

In 1998 the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau ( R98 ) was decommissioned after 37 years of service, and another aircraft carrier was decommissioned two years later after 37 years of service, leaving the French Navy with no aircraft carrier until 2001, when Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier was commissioned.

Lloyd George represented Britain at the Versailles Peace Conference, clashing with French Premier Georges Clemenceau, U. S. President Woodrow Wilson and Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando.

Lloyd George wanted to punish Germany politically and economically for devastating Europe during the war, but did not want to utterly destroy the German economy and political system — as Clemenceau wanted — with massive reparations.

As the situation worsened in early 1918, Clemenceau continued to support the policy of total war – " We present ourselves before you with the single thought of total war " – and the policy of " la guerre jusqu ' au bout " ( war until the end ).

As war minister Clemenceau was also in close contact with his generals.

On 11 November an armistice with Germany was signed – Clemenceau saw this was Germany's admission of defeat.

On 19 February 1919, during the Paris Peace Conference, as Clemenceau was leaving his house in the Rue Franklin to drive to a meeting with House and Balfour at the Crillon, a man jumped out and fired several shots at the car.

Station Charles de Gaulle – Étoile is at the street's west end, and there are three stations with entrances on the street itself ; from west to east these are: George V by the Hôtel George-V, Franklin D. Roosevelt at the rond-point des Champs-Élysées, and Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau at place Clemenceau.

On 6 January 1920 Prince Faisal initialed an agreement with French Prime Minister Clemenceau which acknowledged " the right of the Syrians to unite to govern themselves as an independent nation ".

The disturbances arising in connection with the Separation Law were skillfully handled by Georges Clemenceau to discredit the ministry, which gave place to a cabinet under the direction of Sarrien.

Clemenceau viewed Germany as having unfairly attained an economic victory over France, due to the heavy damage German forces dealt to France's industries even during the German retreat, and expressed dissatisfaction with France's allies at the peace conference.

Clemenceau believed that the British would help France in a war with Germany but Campbell-Bannerman told him Britain was in no way committed.

Clemenceau said ...‘ I am totally opposed to you – we both recognise a great danger and you are ... reducing your army and weakening your navy .’ ‘ Ah ’ said Bannerman ‘ but that is for economy !’... then said that he thought the English ought to have some kind of military service, at which Bannerman nearly fainted ...‘ It comes to this ’ said Clemenceau ‘ in the event of your supporting us against Germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our War Offices and to land 110, 000 men on the coast while Italy marches with us in the ranks ?’ Then came the crowning touch of the interview.

‘ The sentiments of the English people would be totally averse to any troops being landed by England on the continent under any circumstances .’ Clemenceau looks upon this as undoing the whole result of the entente cordiale and says that if that represents the final mind of the British Government, he has done with us.

For nine months, he was shown the brilliance of Paris under the Third Republic, and met and dined with the likes of Georges Clemenceau and Alexandre Ribot.

On 6 January 1920 Faisal initialed an agreement with Clemenceau which acknowledged ' the right of Syrians to unite to govern themselves as an independent nation '.

Clemenceau was in the chair ( 1 December 1917 ), and his speech, drafted by Hankey, tasked the military representatives with studying the prospects for the 1918 campaign, and in particular whether German defeat would be best brought about by attacks on her allies.

Clemenceau had had Caillaux arrested toward the end of the war for collusion with the enemy.

Clemenceau also expressed skepticism and frustration with Wilson's Fourteen Points: " Mr. Wilson bores me with his fourteen points ", complained Clemenceau.

While this request to Clemenceau was sincere, it naively ignored the fact that France and Britain had been allied for the previous four years.

Clemenceau eventually agreed to sign the Treaty of Versailles ( June 1919 ) on condition Britain guaranteed to defend France against unprovoked German aggression ( President Woodrow Wilson did the same but the USA did not ratify the agreement ).

At the center of the proceedings were the leaders of the four " Great Powers ": President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain, George Clemenceau of France, and, of least importance, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando ; Orlando eventually had pulled out of the conference and did not play a role in constructing the final draft of the Treaty of Versailles.

The protocol was signed by Clemenceau for France, by David Lloyd George for Britain, by Francesco Saverio Nitti for Italy, and by Keishiro Matsui for Japan ; and, of course, by the two German delegates.

The point ended up being moot in any case, as Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau, heads of governments of Great Britain and France, prevailed in drafting the provisions of the San Remo conference and the Treaty of Sèvres.

At the 1919 Peace of Paris where the leaders of France, Britain and the USA ( led by Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson ) met to decide the future of Europe, Wilson proposed his famous Fourteen Points for peacemaking.

In the 1880s, there was a debate between those, such as Georges Clemenceau ( Radical ), Jean Jaurès ( Socialist ) and Maurice Barrès ( nationalist ), who argued that colonialism diverted France from the " blue line of the Vosges " ( referring to Alsace-Lorraine ), and the " colonial lobby ", such as Jules Ferry ( moderate republican ), Léon Gambetta ( republican ) and Eugène Etienne, the president of the parliamentary colonial group.

The newspaper was run by Ernest Vaughan and Georges Clemenceau, who decided that the controversial story would be in the form of an open letter to the President, Félix Faure.

Though Provence was generally conservative, it often elected reformist leaders ; Prime Minister Léon Gambetta was the son of a Marseille grocer, and future prime minister Georges Clemenceau was elected deputy from the Var in 1885.

He was beheaded on 17 June 1939, outside the prison Saint-Pierre, rue Georges Clemenceau 5 at Versailles, which is now the Palais de Justice.

At the beginning of his political career, the future French statesman Georges Clemenceau ( 1841 – 1929 ) was mayor of Montmartre.

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (; ( 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929 ) was a French journalist, physician, and statesman.

Clemenceau was a son of the Vendée, born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds.

In 1876 Clemenceau stood again for the Chamber of Deputies, and was elected for the 18th arrondissement.

Clemenceau was defeated on 20 July 1909 in a discussion in the Chamber on the state of the Navy, in which bitter words were exchanged between him and Théophile Delcassé, the former president of the Council whose downfall Clemenceau had aided.

Refusing to respond to Delcassé's technical questions, Clemenceau resigned after his proposal for the order of the day vote was rejected.

In November 1917 Clemenceau was appointed prime minister.

It was a challenging situation for Clemenceau, because after years of criticizing other men during the war, he suddenly found himself in a position of supreme power.

This confidence began to spread from the trenches to the home front and it was said " We believed in Clemenceau rather in the way that our ancestors believed in Joan of Arc.

Clemenceau was also well received by the media because they felt that France was in need for strong leadership.

It was said that " Like everyone else … Clemenceau will not last long-only long enough to clean up war.

Clemenceau believed, in the words of Jean Ybarnégaray, that Caillaux's crime " was not to have believed in victory to have gambled on his nation's defeat ".

It was believed by some in Paris that the arrest of Caillaux and others was a sign that Clemenceau had begun a Reign of Terror.