For 10 points, what French politician known as "the Tiger" led France through World War I and argued for a particularly harsh punishment against Germany in the Treaty of Versailles?
He resigned as Mayor of Montmarte when he failed to resolve the Paris Commune crisis, but he successfully brought down Jules Ferry's administration by dramatizing the Tonkin disaster. After being defeated by Paul Deschanel in a presidential race, he resigned from his most famous post which he served under Raymond Poincaré. In La Justice he argued for revenge against Germany following the Franco-Prussian War, while it was in his paper L'Aurore that Zola's "J'accuse" appeared. For 10 points, what French politician known as "the Tiger" led France through World War I and argued for a particularly harsh punishment against Germany in the Treaty of Versailles?
He resigned as Mayor of Montmarte when he failed to resolve the Paris Commune crisis, but he successfully brought down Jules Ferry's administration by dramatizing the Tonkin disaster.
Georges Benjamin {Clemenceau}