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CLEMENCEAU, Georges (1841-1929). Autograph manuscript of a newspaper article, entitled 'L'ingratitude humaine', n.p. [Paris], n.d. [early 1914?], 4½ pages, 4to.
A derisive attack on Aristide Briand, Louis Barthou and -- Clemenceau's bête-noire -- President Poincaré: 'Même d'un très bon lit, la couverture n'est pas toujours assez grande pour deux. Les rites accomplis, il arrive à chacun de la tirer à soi, sans y penser: en quoi l'autre peut manifester son ennui ... M[onsieu]r Barthou est un Briand pyrénéen, comme M[onsieu]r Briand est un Barthou de Nantes. Ils se ressemblent trop pour ne pas s'opposer'. The opening paragraphs include a comical comparison between the ease with which characters from a 1902 film [L'armoire des frères Davonport] disentangle themselves from a tricky situation and the ineffectiveness of Briand. The reference to the association of Briand with Barthou and to Briand's promises to reform the 'Union des Républicains' is presumably to their leadership of one faction of the Republican Party (the other following Caillaux and Jaurès), in the period before the general election of May 1914.
The manuscript is probably an editorial for L'Homme libre, the daily newspaper which Clemenceau founded in May 1913. His editorials dominated the front page, surrounded by news items. His hatred for President Poincaré went back to the latter's refusal to take a stand during the Dreyfus case.
A derisive attack on Aristide Briand, Louis Barthou and -- Clemenceau's bête-noire -- President Poincaré: 'Même d'un très bon lit, la couverture n'est pas toujours assez grande pour deux. Les rites accomplis, il arrive à chacun de la tirer à soi, sans y penser: en quoi l'autre peut manifester son ennui ... M[onsieu]r Barthou est un Briand pyrénéen, comme M[onsieu]r Briand est un Barthou de Nantes. Ils se ressemblent trop pour ne pas s'opposer'. The opening paragraphs include a comical comparison between the ease with which characters from a 1902 film [L'armoire des frères Davonport] disentangle themselves from a tricky situation and the ineffectiveness of Briand. The reference to the association of Briand with Barthou and to Briand's promises to reform the 'Union des Républicains' is presumably to their leadership of one faction of the Republican Party (the other following Caillaux and Jaurès), in the period before the general election of May 1914.
The manuscript is probably an editorial for L'Homme libre, the daily newspaper which Clemenceau founded in May 1913. His editorials dominated the front page, surrounded by news items. His hatred for President Poincaré went back to the latter's refusal to take a stand during the Dreyfus case.
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