GEORGES CLEMENCEAU, A BIG-HEARTED TIGER

Exceptional destinies

An episode from the series SECRETS OF HISTORY - PORTRAITS

Synopsis

Georges Clémenceau was an eminent statesman whose political career ran from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. He was the one who led France to victory in 1918.

This politician had a gift for words, was anticlerical, and opposed colonization.

He was close to the painter Claude Monet and celebrated the 1918 victory in his gardens at Giverny.