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© Text Christine Hémar
© Images Musée Clemenceau collection
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September 28, 1841 : Birth of Georges Clemenceau. |
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| Georges as a child |
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1848 : Second Republic. |
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| Age 10 |
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1851 : Louis Napoléon Bonaparte coup d'état. |
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1852 : Enters high school in Nantes. |
1852 : Empire is proclaimed. |
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| Benjamin Clemenceau
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1858 : Benjamin Clemenceau arrested.
Georges Clemenceau begins medical school at the École Préparatoire de Médecine de Nantes. |
1858 : Orsini attempts to assassinate Napoléon III near the Opera. |
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| Age 20 |
1861 : Birth of brother Albert Clemenceau. Georges Clemenceau arrives in Paris (October). First issue of Le Travail (22 December) |
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1862 : (February 24 - May 12) Clemenceau imprisoned in Mazas |
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1864 : International Workingmen's Association founded in London |
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| Medical student
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1865 : Medical degree. Clemenceau arrives in New York in September. |
1865 : President Lincoln assassinated in April. |
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| American wife Mary Plummer
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1869 : Marriage and return to France. |
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1870 : Birth of daughter Madeleine. Moves to Paris and is elected Mayor of Montmartre. |
1870 : (July 19) - France declares war on Prussia. (September 19) -Beginning of the siege of Paris. End of the Empire. |
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| Age 30 |
1871 : Clemenceau elected deputy in February (resigns March 27) and city councilman in July (re-elected in 1874). |
1871 : Armistice and surrender of Paris. In January (March 28) - Commune is proclaimed. (May 10) - Treaty of Frankfurt. (May 21-27) - The "bloody week". |
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Georges Clemenceau in 1872
Berger studio photo
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1872 : Birth of daughter Thérèse. Clemenceau imprisoned for fighting a duel with an officer. |
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1873 :Birth of son Michel. |
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Georges Clemenceau in 1874
Etienne Carjat studio photo |
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1875 : Constitutional laws. |
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1876 : Clemenceau elected to Chamber of Deputies |
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1877 : Clemenceau re-elected deputy. |
1877 : (May) MacMahon demands the resignation of Jules Simon. |
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| Daughter Thérèse, born in 1872
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1879 : Clemenceau supports the general amnesty proposed by Victor Hugo in the Senate and Louis Blanc in the Chamber. Gives first speech at the Cirque Fernando. |
1879 : The Marseillaise becomes the national anthem. Parliament returns to Paris. |
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1880 : La Justice is founded. Meets Marx in London. |
1880 : Communard exiles are amnestied. July 14th is celebrated for the first time. |
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| Age 40 |
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| Son Michel, born in 1873
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1881 : Clemenceau re-elected to the Chamber. |
1881 : Law makes primary school education free. Jules Ferry attacked over Tunisian expedition. |
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| With daughter Madeleine, born in 1870
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1882 : Clemenceau drives Freycinet from power over the Egyptian question. |
1882 : Law on mandatory and secular primary school education. Death of Gambetta. |
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1883 : Claude Monet moves to Giverny. |
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1884 : Naquet law authorizes divorce. Trade unions legalized. |
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| At the Chamber of Deputies
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1885 : Clemenceau elected deputy from the Var. |
1885 : Death of Victor Hugo. |
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1886 : Boulanger cheered in Paris. |
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1889 : Clemenceau re-elected in Var runoff election. |
1889 : Boulanger refuses to seize power. |
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1890 : Boulanger suicide in Brussels. |
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| Age 50 |
1891 : First cure at Carlsbad, Bohemia. |
1891 : (May 1) French Workers' Party organizes demonstrations for the eight-hour workday. Demonstrators killed at Fourmies. |
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1892 : Divorce. Déroulède attacks Clemenceau (Panama scandal). |
1892 : Workday for women and children limited to 11 hours. Work week limited to six days. |
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1893 : Clemenceau beaten in legislative elections.
For almost ten years devotes himself to writing, and journalism in particular.
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1894 : Sadi Carnot assassinated. Dreyfus convicted and sentenced to deportation. |
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1895 : Publication of La Mélée sociale. |
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1896 : Travel to Greece. Publication of Grand Pan. |
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1897 : Death of Benjamin Clemenceau. La Justice ceases publication. The Strongest is published. |
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1898 : Duel with Edouard Drumont. |
1898 : Zola's J'accuse |
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1899 : Death of Scheurer-Kestner. |
1899 : Alfred Dreyfus pardoned. |
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1900 : Publication of Au fil des jours. |
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| 60 ans |
1901 : Publication of Veil of Happiness and the Le Bloc weekly. |
1901 : First congress of the Radical and Radical-Socialist Party. |
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1902 : Clemenceau elected senator from the Var. |
1902 : French Socialist Party founded at Tours, Socialist Party of France at Commentry. |
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1903 : Publication of Figures de Vendée and Aux embuscades de la vie. Clemenceau's mother dies. |
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1904 : L'Humanité, launched by Jaurès, publishes first issue. |
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1905 : The two socialist parties merge creating the SFIO. Law passed on the separation of Church and State. |
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1906 : Clemenceau is Interior Minister in March, President of the Council in October. |
1906 : Dreyfus is rehabilitated. The CGT endorses the Amiens Charter. |
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| Prime Minister on a visit to the Var |
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1907 : Electrical workers strike in Paris. Wine regions protest in the south. |
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1908 : Buys property at Bernouville near Giverny. |
1908 : Chamber passes an income tax law. |
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1909 : Clemenceau government falls after a 212-196 Chamber vote. Clemenceau is re-elected senator for the Var. |
1909 : Postal strike. |
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| Visit to South America in 1910
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1910 : Lecture tour in South America. |
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1913 : (May 6) L'Homme Libre first issue. |
1913 : Voting reform law requires use of voting booths. |
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1914 : L'Homme Libre renamed L'Homme enchaîné. |
1914 : Senate votes a general income tax law. (July 31) Jaurès is assassinated. |
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World War 1
At the front
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1915 : Clemenceau elected to both the Senate's Military and Foreign Relations Committees (President of the latter as from November). |
1915 : (March) Failure of the Dardanelles expedition. Rouget de Lisle's ashes transferred to the Invalides. |
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1916 : Battle of Verdun. |
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World War I
Camp Fouilloux in the Oise
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1917 : (November) Clemenceau President of the Council and War Minister. |
1917 : Abdication of Czar Nicholas II. United States enters the war. Bolshevik revolution. |
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| After the Armistice in Alsace
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1918 : (January 18) Clemenceau tells the Chamber he is determined to put down "all anti-republican intrigues". |
1918 : (April 14) Foch appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies (November 11) Armistice is signed. Pétain named Marshal of France. |
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Popularity
after the war.
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1919 : (February 19) Anarchist Emile Cottin shoots Clemenceau. |
1919 : Treaty of Versailles. |
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| Travel to India
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1920 : Clemenceau resigns after losing presidential election and retires from politics.
Travel in Egypt and Sudan. First stay in Bélébat. (September 1920 - May 1921) Travel in Asia.
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1920 : (March) The American Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles. Unknown soldier buried under the Arc de Triomphe, and Gambetta's heart transferred to the Panthéon. SFIO splits (birth of the Communist Party). |
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| Age 80 |
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| Trip to the United States in 1922
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1922 : Visits the United States. |
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1923 : Death of his sister Sophie. Begins corresponding with Marguerite Baldensperger. |
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1924 : Ashes of Jaurès placed in the Panthéon. |
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| With Claude Monet at Giverney
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1926 : Publication of Démosthène. Deaths of Claude Monet and G. Geoffroy. |
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1927 : Publication of In the Evening of My Thought. Death of his sister Adrienne and brother Albert. |
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1928 : Publication of Claude Monet, : the Water Lilies. Death of his sister Emma. |
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| Age 88 |
24 novembre 1929 : Georges Clemenceau dies in Paris. |
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