biography
pronunciation:
[airyoh]
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| lived:
| (1872–1957)
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| biography:
| French statesman and prime minister (1924–5, 1926, 1932), born in Troyes, NEC France. He became professor at the Lycée Ampère, Lyon, and was mayor there from 1905 until his death. He was minister of transport during World War 1, radical-Socialist premier, and several times president of the Chamber of Deputies, a post which he was holding in 1942 when he became a prisoner of Vichy and of the Nazis. He later became president of the National Assembly (1947–54). A keen supporter of the League of Nations, he nonetheless opposed the whole concept of the European Defence Community, especially German rearmament. He wrote a number of literary and biographical studies, the best known of which are Madame Récamier (1904) and Beethoven (1932). |
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