Chapeau de georges clemenceau biography

A colorful bust sketch of Clemenceau wearing his distinctive chapeau drawn with pastels and signed by Swiss artist DAVID BURNAND (1888-1975).

Born in Vendée, sent up to the capital to finish his studies in medicine, imprisoned in 1870 in a besieged Paris, mayor of his commune, doctor to the poor in.

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Object Record

Title "Chapeau Politique / a la President" Object Name Painting Object ID 96:17.370 Description Hand painted postcard.

Front: Woman in long burgandy coat and large brown hat mounted by a bearded figure (President Georges Clemenceau ); postage stamp and postmark on left

Verso: Addressed to (stamped): "Monsieur Louis DASPET/ ABLON (Seine-et-Oise)" Date 1909 Dimensions H-5.5 W-3.5 inches Material Paper, Gouache, Ink Medium Gouache Search Terms Clothing and Dress
Fashion
France
Gouache Painting
Hats
Pen Drawing
Politics
Postcards
Women
Provenance 77 of 264 hand painted postcards and 7 larger engravings, originally compiled in a scrapbook entitled: "Album Gavures et Cartes-Postales: Viex Paris Types Petites Metiers et Cris De La Rue"
Donald and Mildred Othmer purchased the book for 2500 Francs. The book was bequeathed to the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

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2018: the Year of Clemenceau

In Paris, at the Champs-Élysées roundabout, the statues of France’s two war leaders sit one across from the other. At the metro exit stands the imposing statue of General de Gaulle, while on the other side of the avenue, the statue of Georges Clemenceau rises tall. Erected in 1932, it features the Father of Victory in mid-stride wearing a heavy coat and gaiters, his scarf blowing in the wind, as he was seen when visiting the poilus, a term of endearment (literally ‘the hairy ones’) for the French infantrymen in the war. Today, this image is without a doubt the most enduring in the memory of French citizens.

In 2018, it will be revived following the French President’s decision to pay homage, as one strand of the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, to the victor Georges Clemenceau, the founder of the Third Republic who, appointed President of the Council by Poincaré in November 1917, pledged to "conquer or die". Despite the validity of his choice, it would be reductive to remember Clemenceau for nothing but his warrior image and to sum up his career as one led exclusively by an aggressive and warmongering strategy.

“WE WANT PEACE”

In 1917, Georges Clemenceau and his government declare

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Jean Walter

French architect

Jean Walter, (Montbéliard, 1883, Dordives – 1957), was a French creator who in the main worked funding public dwelling, hospital architectonics, and condominiums .

Life

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