Word: clemenceau
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...through the iron gates to the French Foreign Ministry. The diplomats of the victorious Allies were assembled there in the graceful old Salon de 1'Horloge, with its five big windows overlooking the murky Seine, where in 1856 the Crimean War had come to an end, where Clemenceau had ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and where the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war had been signed...
...Scots-Irish Glaswegian, Brogan was educated at Glasgow, Oxford and Harvard, has since published scholarly, lively studies of three nations-The American Character, The English People, The Free State. His newest foray is a collection of 27 essays on French figures and subjects ranging from political and military (including Clemenceau, Jaures, Darlan, De Gaulle) to literary (Dumas, Proust...
...portraitist rather than a creator. Will Rogers had called him the "last of the savage head-hunters." He had met and modeled almost all the significant figures of modern times. Foch, Balfour, Lloyd George, Benes, Litvinoff, John D. Rockefeller the elder, Andrew Mellon, Sinclair Lewis, Sidney Hillman, Clemenceau, Mussolini, Gandhi and Aldous Huxley were only a few of his trophies. He was convinced that Franklin Roosevelt was the greatest of them...
Premier-President Bidault served champagne in the Clemenceau Salon (recently named for the man who really won the game...
...work as a percussionist in the Opéra-Comique; he rang the bells for Lakmé. Tympani took him through his Conservatory days, and then he went into the army. During his military career he solemnly rataplanned the drums at Versailles as Woodrow Wilson marched by with Clemenceau...