Célestin Hennion CVO was a French police officer who rose to head the Prefecture of Police. He was responsible for the reorganisation of the Préfecture and the introduction of The Tiger Brigades, ancestor of the French judicial police. In France, he is considered to be one of the pioneers of modern policing.
Hennion in 1914
Plaque on the Célestin-Hennion alley off the Louis-Lépine square in Paris.
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end of the First World War. He was a key figure of the Independent Radicals, advocating for the separation of church and state, as well as the amnesty of the Communards exiled to New Caledonia.
Portrait by Nadar, 1904
Clemenceau at age 24, c. 1865
Mary Clemenceau in period costume. Portrait by Ferdinand Roybet
An 1887 painting of a French child being taught about the "lost" province of Alsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War dramatizes the main goal of Clemenceau and the French in general, to regain those provinces
