#george clemenceau

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Council of Four of the Peace Conference. Mr. Lloyd George; Signor Orlando; M. Clemenceau; President Woodrow Wilson. Hotel Crillon, Paris, France.

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

This black and white photograph shows four older men in suits standing outside before an open door in a large building.  Three wear old fashioned cutaway coats, and one, Italian Prime Minister Orlando, wears a more modern suit.  From left to right the men are, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Italy Vittorio Orlando, French President Georges Clemenceau, and American President Woodrow Wilson.

[jadeseadragon]

"To find yourself - think for yourself."

- Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)

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"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1834 - 1872)

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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

- Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)

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"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself … aloud."

- Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971)

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"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead trouble makers."

- Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)

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"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."

- Charlotte P. Gillman (1860 - 1935)

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"Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity are both uncivilized and undemocratic."

- Mohandis (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

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"There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense; for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads."

- William Edelen (b. 1922)

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"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."

- Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989) Political Activist

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"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."

- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929) French statesman

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French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau on a vintage postcard

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Pas de noir pour Monet!

Perhaps as heroic in its own way was Clemenceau's patient encouragement and support of his good friend Monet during the long years when the painter was struggling to produce his epic Water Lilies. It was Clemenceau who, after the death of Monet's beloved Alice, cajoled and prodded his friend to undertake the enormous project. "Go ahead and stop procrastinating," Clemenceau told him. "You can still do it, so do it."

In the years that followed, even throughout the war, Clemenceau provided Monet with essential moral as well as practical support, helping to negotiate a future home for the panels (at first planned for a free-standing building on the grounds of the Hôtel Biron, and then in the ground floor of the Musée de l'Orangerie), as well as making possible Monet's eventual donation of the entire work to the state. In time, Clemenceau was also successful in pressing Monet to undergo operations for his cataracts.

As Monet's health ebbed, Clemenceau visited Giverny ever more frequently, encouraging his friend to eat and to walk in his beloved garden. Shortly before Monet's death, Clemenceau was still wont to buck him up with advice such as, "Stand up straight, hold your head up, and kick your slipper up as far as the stars." But the Tiger was gently humorous with Monet as well, calling him his "poor old crustacean".

Monet died on December 5, 1926, and Clemenceau was with him at the end. Later, at the funeral, he replaced the black flag draped over the coffin with a flower-patterned cloth, with the words, "No black for Monet!"

Mary McAuliffe- Dawn of the Belle Epoque - The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau and their friends

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“Sprung from the Revolution, the conquering Napoleon represented in spite of himself certain doctrines of liberation.”

— Georges Clemenceau, 23 August 1914, France Facing Germany

Clemenceau was a French statesmen in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was prime minister of France during the close of World War I.

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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for Thursday, 16th May 1918

It is dreadful my life, dreadful yet wonderful to skim the cream off life … gliding along oceans of delight when the world is mourning and is suffering. In the world drenched with misery, is one drop of happiness a sin? Electric waves of depression seem to sweep over Paris. The theatres are all open and the streets and restaurants are crowded. The giant balloons placed in conspicuous places have restored confidence, the idea being that the wires suspended from them impede the progress of the Boche planes. Really they are probably useless, but as a matter of fact there has not been a successful read for three weeks. The people in the know believe the English forces and possibly the French will fall back, that the Ypres salient will be abandoned and that they will take back Amiens or Arras. Then the tide will turn and it will be the Allied hour backed by the Americans to victory …¹ Chaponay² is more cheerful since the duc de Lévis-Mirepoix³ has been acquitted. He is supposed to have left letters written by the Queen Mother of Spain⁴ in a taxicab wrapped in a pair of stays. There are vague rumours that they were left in the house of a well-known actress playing at the Capucines. He was court-martialled, in spite of the opposition of Foch and Clemenceau,⁵ (the ‘Tiger’⁶ ever delighted to persecute an aristocrat) and was freed from blame. The Lévis-Mirepoix are most arrogant and they claim descent from Levi⁷ — and always refer to the Virgin Mary as ‘notre cousine’. The tact of the usually tactless Prince de Beauvau⁸ in not getting into this scrape at Madrid is much commented on. Table-turning⁹ this evening predicted the fall of Clemenceau. Of course the monde¹⁰ hat him and are most Clemenceauphobe,¹¹ although they have no candidate to suggest. I am like them, anti-Pershing,¹² anti-Clemenceau, for no reason unless it is type-antipathy.

Which is remarkably similar to what happened.

Marquis Antoine Marie François de Chaponay-Morancé (1893-1956). In 1923 he would marry Geneviève d’Orléans (1901-83), Princess de France, daughter of the 8th duc de Vendôme.

Antoine Pierre Marie François Joseph de Lévis-Mirepoix (1884-1981) was a historian and novelist. He inherited the dukedom from his father in 1915. He would later become a member of the Académie française. He had fought in the French army but by 1918 was engaged on diplomatic work.

Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1858–1929).

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841–1929) was Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and from 1917 to 1920.

Clemenceau’s nickname. Channon perhaps insufficiently draws attention to the irony of the Prime Minister’s relative leniency in this matter.

In the Book of Genesis, Levi is the son of Jacob and Leah, and Moses’s great-grandfather.

Charles-Louis de Beauvau-Craon (1878–1942), 6th Prince of Beauvau, was a veteran of a society scandal in 1909 when, while already married, he fell in love with the married Princesse Bibesco (née Marthe Lahovary) (1886–1973).

A form of seance becoming fashionable in Paris as part of the vogue for spiritualism during the Great War.

Fashionable people.

Because his radical politics held little appeal for the privileged denizens of the faubourg.

General John Joseph ‘Black Jack’ Pershing (1860–1948) was Commander of the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front.

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„Die Friedhöfe der Welt sind voll von Leuten, die sich für unentbehrlich hielten.“

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau

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Frases Célebres

Frases Célebres Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841-1929) #aperturaintelectual #frasescelebresaintelectual

“Es preciso saber lo que se quiere; cuando se quiere, hay que tener el valor de decirlo, y cuando se dice, es menester tener el coraje de realizarlo.” Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841-1929) Médico, periodista y político francés. Sigue Apertura Intelectual en todas nuestras redes: WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Tumblr Reddit Mastodon Te invitamos a que califiques esta…

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This got me laughing hard

"‘The peacemakers walked down to the terrace overlooking the great formal gardens as the fountains spurted into the air. Wilson was nearly pushed into a fountain. Lloyd George was angry and disheveled, by a squad of soldiers. ‘A similar thing would never have happened in England,’ he told an Italian diplomat. ‘And if it had happened, someone have had to pay.’ Afterward Llyod George, much to his annoyance, was made to sit down and write a letter to the king announcing that the peace had been concluded."

-From the book Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan

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"Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est la vie des hommes qui ont échoué car c'est le signe qu'ils ont essayé de se surpasser".

Georges Clemenceau

(1841-1929)

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Smile, Smile, Smile

- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned

Yesterday’s Mail; the casualties (typed small)

And (large) Vast Booty from our Latest Haul.

Also, they read of Cheap Homes, not yet planned,

‘For’, said the paper, ‘when this war is done

The men’s first instinct will be making homes.

Meanwhile their foremost need is aerodromes,

It being certain war has but begun.

Peace would do wrong to our undying dead, —

The sons we offered might regret they died

If we got nothing lasting in their stead.

We must be solidly indemnified.

Though all be worthy Victory which all bought,

We rulers sitting in this ancient spot

Would wrong our very selves if we forgot

The greatest glory will be theirs who fought,

Who kept this nation in integrity.’

Nation? — The half-limbed readers did not chafe

But smiled at one another curiously

Like secret men who know their secret safe.

(This is the thing they know and never speak,

That England one by one had fled to France,

Not many elsewhere now, save under France.)

Pictures of these broad smiles appear each week,

And people in whose voice real feeling rings

Say: How they smile! They’re happy now, poor things.

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this is a post that makes sense

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" Bélébat - Le koïnobori ". C'est vers 1925 que le peintre Gilbert Bellan (1868-1951) réalise ce tableau (gouache - aquarelle-fusain) depuis la maison de Georges Clemenceau.

via Maison et Jardins de Georges Clemenceau

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"Les cimetières sont pleins de gens irremplaçables, qui ont tous été remplacés."  Georges Clemenceau