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Born December 20, 1841 • Paris • France
Died February 16, 1932 (aged 90) • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1927)

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Aristide Briand
prime minister of France
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Léon Bourgeois, lithograph by Brunscher, c. 1900
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Victor Cousin
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
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Napoleon III
Napoleon III
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Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
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Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
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Philip IV
Philip IV
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