Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . ity, and it was not till after along interval, during which he visited theUnited States (1865-1869), that he wasable to return and obtain his next year he was chosen mayorof the arrondissement of Montmartre,Paris, and during the struggle with theCommune, acted as an intermediary be-tween the revolutionists and the Govern-ment of the Republic. Clemenceaus long legislative career be-gan in 1871, when he was elected a time he was Member and President2—Vo
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . ity, and it was not till after along interval, during which he visited theUnited States (1865-1869), that he wasable to return and obtain his next year he was chosen mayorof the arrondissement of Montmartre,Paris, and during the struggle with theCommune, acted as an intermediary be-tween the revolutionists and the Govern-ment of the Republic. Clemenceaus long legislative career be-gan in 1871, when he was elected a time he was Member and President2—Vol. in—Cyc CLEMENCEAXJ 14 CLEMENS of the Municipal Council of Paris, butfrom 1876 to 1893, his service in theChamber of Deputies was he took his place with the radicalsof the extreme left, and rapidly rose toleadership. He was prominent in theoverthrow of the ministries of Gambetta(1882), Ferry (1885), Brisson (1886)and Freycinet (1886). Boulanger alsofound in him a formidable opponent. The Panama scandal of 1892 cast un-favorable reflections on Clemenceau andcaused a vigorous and successful cam-. GEORGES B. E. CLEMENCEAU paign to be waged against his re-election(1893). He then, for a few years, de-voted himself entirely to journalism andthe editorship of L^ Justice, foundedby him in 1880. Later (1900-1902) hepublished Le Bloc, and after his elec-tion to the Senate (1902), edited LAu-rore (1903-1907), in which he had ar-dently supported the cause of he became the editor of the news-paper, LHomme Libre. The destroyer of so many ministriesconsented for the first time to accept aportfolio in March, 1906, whence he be-came Minister of the Interior in the Sar-rien Cabinet. In October of the sameyear he was called upon to form the min-istry which was to be of such long dura-tion. Starting with an anti-clerical andeven socialistic platform. Clemenceausoon won other than radical votes by his firmness in upholding the powers of theGovernment against the
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