Briand
Aristide
[ar-uh-steed;; French a-ree-steed] /ˈær əˌstid;; French a riˈstid/ (Show IPA), 1862–1932, French statesman: minister of France 11 times; Nobel Peace Prize 1926.
Historical Examples
In another of Briand’s cases torticollis alternated with astasia-abasia, a sort of “mental paraplegia.”
Tics and Their Treatment Henry Meigne
Anfossi, or Briand, as now he called himself, addressed her in that language.
Somewhere in France Richard Harding Davis
All of which admissions the versatile Briand proceeded to falsify almost in the same speech.
The War Upon Religion Rev. Francis A. Cunningham
If they should take Briand in the act, should they have even the least doubt concerning him, you must repudiate him entirely.
Somewhere in France Richard Harding Davis
Briand repeated these sentiments at the Amsterdam congress in 1903.
Socialism and Democracy in Europe Samuel P. Orth
Another French general, Briand, had also engaged the enemy without success near Rouen.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 “Franciscans” to “French Language” Various
But toward Briand, the chauffeur, the new arrivals were less easily satisfied.
Somewhere in France Richard Harding Davis
And Briand pointed out these “successive concessions” which deprived the Guesdists of their revolutionary character.
Syndicalism in France Louis Levine
Briand’s conduct in the great railway strike in 1911 is discussed below.
Socialism As It Is William English Walling
But against the solid wall of an immobile working-mass, even a Briand would be broken.
Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre Voltairine de Cleyre
noun
Aristide (aristid). 1862–1932, French socialist statesman: prime minister of France 11 times. He was responsible for the separation of Church and State (1905) and he advocated a United States of Europe. Nobel peace prize 1926
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