Titre | CLEMENCEAU ET LA GRÈCE | |
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Auteur | Jean-Noël Jeanneney | |
Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
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Numéro | no 58, avril-juin 1998 | |
Page | 3-12 | |
Résumé anglais | Clemenceau and Greece, Jean-Noël Jeanneney. "You have to go to Greece to get anywhere else," said Clemenceau, who admired above all the power-hammer eloquence of a Demosthenes. At the time when lawyers and professors were marked by Ciceron, the philhellenic Tiger united word and conviction, discussion and combat, reason and liberty. It was a strongly Athenian definition of the French Republic that is worth recalling today, 80 years after the 1918 victory. | |
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