biography
pronunciation:
[breeã]
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| lived:
| (1862–1932)
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| biography:
| French statesman and prime minister (1909–11, 1913, 1915–17, 1921–2, 1925–6, 1929), born in Nantes, W France. He was founder (with Jean Jaurés) of L'Humanité, and framer of the law for the separation of Church and state (1905). A socialist, he was 11 times elected French premier, and also served as foreign minister (1925–32), helping to conclude the Kellogg–Briand Pact (1928), outlawing war as a means of solving disputes. He shared the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1926, and advocated a United States of Europe. |
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