Figures de Vendée

by Georges Clemenceau

Retour ému, quoiqu'un peu distant, d'un Vendéen devenu Parisien dans les profondeurs de la région qui l'a vu naître.Du bord de mer en passant par le marais ou le bocage, ses longues promenades à pieds, en chasseur ou en simple curieux, lui donnent l'occasion de nous présenter ceux qui ne sont jamais partis.Une émouvante collection de portraits croqués sur le vif : petites gens "dans leur jus" d'une vie immuable depuis des siècles, habiles à des métiers disparus, façonnés sur des générations par des paysages aujourd'hui nivelés.

141 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1930

About the author

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French politician, physician, and journalist who was Prime Minister of France during the First World War. A leader of the Radical Party, he played a central role in the politics of the French Third Republic.

Clemenceau was first Prime Minister from 1906 to 1909, and then again from 1917 to 1920. In favour of a total victory over the German Empire, he militated for the restitution of Alsace-Lorraine to France. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Nicknamed "Père la Victoire" (Father Victory) or "Le Tigre" (The Tiger), he took a harsh position against defeated Germany, though not quite as much as the President Raymond Poincaré, and won agreement on Germany's payment of large sums for reparations.

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