Alexandre Millerand
Alexandre Millerand ( born February 10, 1859 in Paris, † April 7, 1943 in Versailles) was a French statesman of the Third Republic and influential politicians of the last quarter of the 19th and the first quarter of the 20th century. From September 1920 to June 1924, he was a follower of Paul Deschanel president.
Originally a socialist, Mille edge originating from a humble son of a small wine-merchant, in 1885 and 1899 for the first time a deputy minister against the will of his party was. As a lawyer, he defended several revolutionary activists, among them Paul Lafargue, the son in law of Karl Marx. In the Dreyfus Affair, which divided the country, he engaged as a lawyer vehemently for the Jewish officer who was accused of treason.
From 1899 to 1902 belonged Mille edge to the Government of the " defense of the Republic " under the left-wing Prime Minister Waldeck- Rousseau. Over time, he tended more and more conservative views, and finally gave his socialist attitude completely. In 1904 he was expelled from the Socialist Party. Shortly afterwards he renounced Freemasonry.
Mille edge held several ministerial posts (including the Minister of War ). After the French victory in the First World War, he served as Commissioner-General of the Republic for the reintegration of recovered territory of Germany the former Alsace -Lorraine. He was the author of the "Charter " ( Manifesto ) of the " National Bloc " ( Bloc national), which emerged from the parliamentary election in 1919 as the winner.
On 20 January 1920 he became Prime Minister, and after the inevitable resignation of Paul Deschanel because of a mental illness already on September 23, 1920, his successor as president of the French Republic. In his office, he tried to play an active role, but had by the Constitution of the Third Republic is little scope. After the victory of the Left ( " Cartel of Gauches " ) in the parliamentary elections in 1924, the new majority forced his resignation on June 11. His successor of the radical socialist Gaston Doumergue was chosen.
After retiring from the Elysée Palace Mille edge formed a new party " Ligue républicaine ". He was shortly thereafter elected to the Senate, without being able to once again play a significant political role. 1925 - 1927 he was a senator for the département of Seine; 1927 - 1943 for the department of Orne.
Mille edge acted as a patron at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 ( in his capacity as Minister of Commerce) and at the Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 ( in his capacity as President ).
In his honor, was named an island in the Antarctic Ile Mille edge.
Adolphe Thiers | Patrice de Mac -Mahon | Jules Grévy | Marie François Sadi Carnot | Jean Casimir - Perier | Félix Faure | Émile Loubet | Armand Fallières | Raymond Poincaré | Paul Deschanel | Alexandre Millerand | Gaston Doumergue | Paul Doumer | Albert Lebrun