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 and reconciliation politics during the interwar period (1918–1939).
Painting by Marcel Baschet
Briand with British Army officer John Maxwell
Briand (center) 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 Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923, and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929. His most notable achievement was the reconciliation between Germany and France, for which he and French Prime Minister Aristide Briand received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. During a period of political instability and fragile, short-lived governments, Stresemann was the most influential politician in most of the Weimar Republic's existence.
Portrait of Stresemann (with visible Schmiss)
Streseman (middle) with the German delegation at the 1925 Locarno Treaties, Autochrome by Roger Dumas
1929 Autochrome of Streseman in The Hague by Stéphane Passet
Stresemann in September 1929 shortly before his death with his wife Käth and son Wolfgang