Aristide Briand
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Aristide Pierre Henri Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues
Painting by Marcel Baschet
Briand with British Army officer John Maxwell
Briand (centre) with members of the French delegation including Henri Fromageot and Philippe Berthelot at the Locarno Treaties, 1925 Autochrome by Roger Dumas
Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann
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Gustav Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman during the Weimar Republic who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929. His most notable a
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…issues and reconciliation politics during the interwar period (1918–1939). In 1926, he received the Nobel Peace Prize along with German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann for the realization of the Locarno Treaties, which aimed at reconciliation between France and Germany after the First World War. To avoid another…
Stresemann c. 1928–1929
Stresemann (middle) with the German delegation at the 1925 Locarno Treaties, Autochrome by Roger Dumas
1929 Autochrome of Stresemann in The Hague by Stéphane Passet
Stresemann in September 1929 shortly before his death with his wife Käte and son Wolfgang