Aristide Briand
politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from France (1862-1932)
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Aristide Briand was a French politician and statesman who served in numerous leadership roles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to promote international peace. He matters because he was influential in shaping French policy during a critical period in European history and advocated for peaceful solutions to international conflicts.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1862
- Died
- 1932
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Address delivered at Geneva, Switzerland, September 10, 1926
- Essai sur l'association du capital et du travail par l'actionnariat ouvrier
- La separation des eglises et de l'etat
- Report by M.Briand
- Briand speech competition final report, containing the French text of the speech
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Aristide Pierre Henri Briand ( French: [aʁistid pjɛʁ ɑ̃ʁi bʁijɑ̃]; 28 March 1862 – 7 March 1932) was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliation politics during the interwar period (1918–1939).
In 1926, he received the Nobel Peace Prize along with German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann for the realization of the Locarno Treaties, which aimed at reconciliation between France and Germany after the First World War. To avoid another worldwide conflict, he was instrumental in the agreement known as the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928, as well to establish a "European Union" in 1929. However, all his efforts were compromised by the rise of nationalistic and revanchist ideas like Nazism and fascism following the Great Depression.