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The president of France is the head of state of France, elected by popular vote for five years.. The first officeholder is considered to be Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, who was elected in 1848 but provoked the 1851 self-coup to later proclaim himself emperor as Napoleon III.
Jaurès accused French President Raymond Poincaré of being "more Russian than Russia" and premier René Viviani as being compliant. In July 1914, he attended the Socialist Congress in Brussels where he struck up a constructive solidarity with German socialist party leader Hugo Haase. On the 20th of that month, Jaurès voted against a ...
Other events of 1914 History of France • Timeline • Years: Events from the year 1914 in France. Incumbents. President: Raymond Poincar é ...
Interim President of France, as President of the Senate. Stood in the 1969 election but was defeated in the second round by Georges Pompidou. 19 Georges Pompidou [128] (1911–1974) 20 June 1969 2 April 1974 † 4 years, 286 days Union of Democrats for the Republic: 1969: Prime Minister under Charles de Gaulle, 1962–1968.
Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ pwɛ̃kaʁe]; 20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to political and social stability.
Joseph Joffre [10] – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army (1914–1916); Marshal of France from the end of 1916; Ferdinand Foch [11] – Commander of French Army Group North (1914–1916), Commander-in-chief and Generalissimo of the Allied Armies (1918); Marshal of France from August 1918
In the winter of 1913 and spring of 1914, the two men clashed fiercely over his hostile stance against the three-year military service law. In May 1912, Council President Poincaré's decision to declare Joan of Arc's feast day a national holiday was symbolic.
Legislative elections were held in France on 26 April and 10 May 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War I.The Radical Party, a radical and increasingly centre-right party, emerged as the largest party, though, with the outbreak of the First World War, many in the Chamber, ranging from Catholics to socialists, united to form the Union sacrée.