Clemenceau, the Man and His TimeHyndman, H. M. (Henry Mayers)
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Clemenceau, the Man and His Time
Hyndman, H. M. (Henry Mayers)
Clemenceau, Georges, 1841-1929; France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940
----'s distrust of colonisation by conquest, 234
----, Dreyfus affair, 151-170
----'s duel with Commandant Poussages, 53
----, efforts of his enemies to connect him with the Panama scandal, 117
----, failure to attain Presidentship of Chamber, 126
----, fight for Draguignan, 122
----, freedom of speech, 94
----, French intervention in Egypt, 91
----, French peasantry, knowledge of, 133
----, his reception by the miners at Lens, 177
---- in America, 29
---- in prison of Mazas, 25
----'s individualism antipathetic to Socialist view of collective social
progress, 121
----'s influence in council chamber of the Allies, 299
---- introduces measure to establish Municipal Council of Paris, 54
----'s knowledge of Parisian life, 54
----, letters to the _Temps_, 29
----, literary works, 141
----, love of animals, 142
----, love of Paris, 139, 140
---- on French intervention in Egypt, 91
---- on the "Right to Strike," 174
----, opponent of Gambetta, 90
---- opposed to colonial adventure, 88
---- opposed to colonisation by conquest, 62
---- opposed to execution of Generals Lecomte and Thomas, 42
----'s opposition to M. Ferry and his support of M. Sadi-Carnot, 93
----'s powerful personality, 131
----'s power of work, 125
----'s reply to Jaurès, 189
---- retires from parliamentary life after defeat at Draguignan, 123
----'s sense of humour, 55
----'s speech at Hyères, 206
----'s speech at Lyons on the miners' strike, 181
----'s speech in favour of amnesty of Communists, 56
----'s speech in the National Assembly, 43
----'s statement of Socialism, 131
---- the Tiger, 81
----, the universal sceptic, 172
----, tour of propaganda, 43
---- turns journalist, 128
---- turns lecturer, 232
----'s view of Boulangist agitation, 101
----'s warning after the battle of the Marne, 250
----, 1870-71, the war of, 237
Cluseret, 48, 51
Commune, administration of the, 45
----, establishment of the, 41
"Communist Manifesto," the, 50
Comte, Auguste, 25, 26
Constans, M., said to be the cause of the Boulanger fiasco, 103
"Co-operative Commonwealth," 51
Cottu, M., indictment of, 116
Courbet, 45
Courrières-Lens colliery disaster, the, 173
Damiens, the assassin, 136
d'Aumale, Duc, 23
Daudet, M. Léon, 265
Delcassé, M., 173
---- and Clemenceau, antagonism between, 229-231
---- and the Kaiser, 205
----, King Edward's courtesy to, 218
Declaration, Clemenceau's, 284-290
Delescluze, 45, 51, 58
Déroulède, M., saves a situation, 217
Dilke, Sir Charles, 89, 204
Dombrowski, 51
Doumergue, M., 206
Dreyfus, 10
Dufaure, 78, 84
Edward VII, King, 213
Eiffel, M., indictment of, 116
Electrical engineers' strike in Paris, 182
_Encyclopædia Britannica_: tribute to M. Clemenceau, 214
Engels, 50
England's opposition to construction of Suez Canal, 106
Esterhazy, Major, 157-162
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