Abstract
Clemenceau was born in Vendée, France on 28 September 1841 and studied medicine in Paris. He practised medicine in New York between 1865 and 1869, and married an American. During a postgraduate working year in New York in 1951, I came across a plaque on a cinema wall at 12th Avenue, Lower Manhattan, which stated that Dr Georges Clemenceau had worked as a physician at the site in 1868. When published, the New York Herald Tribute awarded me ten dollars. He did not stay there long for he was elected to the National Assembly in 1871 and thereafter was embroiled in politics as the leader of left wing radicals. He was France's prime minister in 1906–1909 and 1917–1920, and presided at the Paris Peace Conference (1919) where he was in daily contact with Lloyd George. Their meetings were memorable for they both had a ferocious style of oratory in view of which Clemenceau was nicknamed The Tiger. This also surfaced in his journalism in L'Aurore and L'Homme. He died in Paris on 24 November 1929 (Figure 1). 1
Georges Clemenceau. Published courtesy of the Institut Français, London