biography
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Poincaré, Raymond (Nicolas Landry)
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pronunciation:
[pwĩkaray]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1934)
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| biography:
| French statesman, prime minister (1912–13, 1922–4, 1926–9), and president (1913–20), born in Bar-le-Duc, NE France. He studied law, then became a deputy (1887) and senator (1903), held ministerial posts in public instruction, foreign affairs, and finance, was three times premier, and president of the Third Republic during World War 1. He occupied the Ruhr in 1923, and his national union ministry averted ruin in 1926. |
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