CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES

born Sept. 28, 1841, Mouilleron-en-Pareds, Fr. died Nov. 24, 1929, Paris byname The Tiger, French Le Tigre statesman and journalist who was a dominant figure in the French Third Republic and, as premier (191720), a major contributor to the Allied victory in World War I and a framer of the postwar Treaty of Versailles. Additional reading David R. Watson, Georges Clemenceau: A Political Biography (1974), the first full-length scholarly political biography; Gaston Monnerville, Clemenceau . . . (1968), an impartial study (in French) that presents a forceful picture of Clemenceau the man; Georges M. Wormser, La Rpublique de Clemenceau (1961), an important, well-documented work by a political collaborator of Clemenceau; Charles L. Mee, Jr., The End of the Order: Versailles 1919 (1980), a popular study depicting Clemenceau as the most influencial diplomat at the conference; Jean Martet, M. Clemenceau peint par lui-mme (1929), and Le Silence de M. Clemenceau (1929), two works by a former collaborator of Clemenceau to whom he entrusted the task of editing his papers (both full of intimate details and of Clemenceau's opinions of the men of his time). See also John Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946, reprinted 1979).