The man who won the nickname Père la Victoire

Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) was a politician who served as president of the Council from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 to 1920. A physician by training, he served as the mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris and later as president of the municipal council of Paris during the beginning of the Third Republic. He was a deputy between 1871 and 1893, representing the radical republican faction. He was a known anticlerical and an atheist who advocated for the separation of Church and State.

Clemenceau was an active participant in the defense of Captain Dreyfus, publishing the book L'Iniquité on the affair in 1899. He founded the newspaper La Justice and later L'Homme enchaîné after facing censorship. In 1902, he was elected senator in the Var, a mandate he held until 1920, despite having previously criticized the institution of the Senate.

In November 1917, he was appointed president of the Council and formed a government dedicated to continuing the war. A supporter of a total victory over the German Empire, he earned the nickname "Père la Victoire" at the end of the conflict. He negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference and later saw the eight-hour law enacted in 1919. After being placed in the minority during a preparatory vote in 1920, he left the head of the government and withdrew from political life.

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