During one prime ministership, this man was strongly opposed by the British when he launched a plan to extract reparation payments by occupying the coal-rich (*) Ruhr region.
As a lawyer, this man defended Jules Verne in a libel suit brought by chemist Eugene Turpin. This follower of Leon Gambetta helped launch the Democratic Republican Alliance. The newspaper L'Humanite accused this man of secretly collaborating with Tsar Nicholas II to inflame the July Crisis. During one prime ministership, this man was strongly opposed by the British when he launched a plan to extract reparation payments by occupying the coal-rich (*) Ruhr region. This man was asked by Ferdinand Foch to take over the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles from Georges Clemenceau, during which time he repeatedly called for an allied occupation of the Rhineland. For 10 points, name this President of the French Third Republic from 1913 to 1920, who was distantly related to a mathematician with a famous conjecture about spheres.
As a lawyer, this man defended Jules Verne in a libel suit brought by chemist Eugene Turpin.
Raymond {Poincare}