Aristide Briand
(1862 - 1932)
Aristide Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and received the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.
He was born on the 28 of March 1862 in Nantes from a bourgeois family. He studied law at the Lycée de Nantes and became a famous statesman who served as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister during the French Third Republic.
He was born on the 28 of March 1862 in Nantes from a bourgeois family. He studied law at the Lycée de Nantes and became a famous statesman who served as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister during the French Third Republic.
Aristide Briand received the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize together with Gustav Stresemann of Germany for the Locarno Treaties in which the First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of central and Eastern Europe sought to return normalizing relations with defeated Germany.
Aristide Briand was the first to propose a union of European nations, in a speech delivered during a conference of the League of Nations on the 5th of September 1929. Then, in 1930, he wrote his « Memorandum on the Organization of a Regime of European Federal Union » for the Government of France, becoming the first European government formally to adopt the principle.
Why choosing Aristide Briand?
Aristide Briand was a forerunner with a pacifist approach of the problems of his time. He made a great step in the direction of our actual Democracy and Republic.
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