CLEMENCEAU, GEORGE BENJA

have MIN EUGENE (1841), a French states The man, 6. in Chateau de l’Aubraie, Feole, aver as, Vendee. He studied medicine an d!i editor to practice in Paris, but was to leave the country on acof his Republican sympathies. 1865-70 he lived in the United mostly in Stamford, Conn., where taught French in a girls’ school. the establishment of the French he returned to France, where was elected to the Chamber of Depin 1876 by the Radicals, In 1893 became involved in a public scandal to the proposed building of Panama Canal and was obliged to from politics. During this period devoted himself to literature, writing novels of considerable merit, these being Great Pan and The Strongest. His powerful journalistic in defense of Dreyfus again him into public favor and he Br pat to the Chamber, in 1902. he became Premier, which. osition he maintained for three years. uring the World War he was, first a of the Cabinet, then, in 1917, Premier and Minister of War, one of the Big Four who dictated peace terms to Germany. In 1920 retired and devoted a period to In the winter of 1922-3 he came the United States to arouse American sympathy for France in her attempt to Germany into the payment of indemnity, but although personally his mi ion was lacking in succe .