This politician denounced the cabinets of the Duc de Broglie and Jules Ferry in the 16th May Crisis and the Tonkin Affair, thus gaining the nickname "destroyer of ministries," and he opposed Ferry's participation in the scramble for Africa.
This politician denounced the cabinets of the Duc de Broglie and Jules Ferry in the 16th May Crisis and the Tonkin Affair, thus gaining the nickname "destroyer of ministries," and he opposed Ferry's participation in the scramble for Africa. During his own tenure as Prime Minister, this man was said to have initiated a new Reign of Terror when he ordered the imprisonment of Joseph Caillaux for "not believing in victory" and "gambling on his nation's defeat." After his involvement in the Panama Canal scandal, this man's publication of J'accuse was instrumental in his political rehabilitation. This politician saw the aforementioned policies of Ferry and Caillaux as distractions from his own revanchist foreign policy, which came to fruition when he gained the right to occupy the Saar coal mines. Dubbed "Napoleon" by David Lloyd George, for 10 points, name this "Tiger," the French member of the Big Four during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
This politician denounced the cabinets of the Duc de Broglie and Jules Ferry in the 16th May Crisis and the Tonkin Affair, thus gaining the nickname "destroyer of ministries," and he opposed Ferry's participation in the scramble for Africa.
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau