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Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré ( French pronunciation: [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.
Raymond Poincaré (born August 20, 1860, Bar-le-Duc, France—died October 15, 1934, Paris) was a French statesman who as prime minister in 1912 largely determined the policy that led to France’s involvement in World War I, during which he served as president of the Third Republic.
Raymond Poincaré, du nom complet Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré, est né le 20 août 1860 à Bar-le-Duc et mort le 15 octobre 1934 à Paris, est un avocat et homme d'État français. Il est le président de la République française du 18 février 1913 au 18 février 1920 .
Nov 9, 2009 · French statesman Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934) served his country as president during World War I (1914-18) and later as prime minister during a series of financial crises. Before the war, he...
Raymond Poincaré was elected member of the Académie Française. 14 January 1912-20 January 1913. He was Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and established a Government of National Unity. 18 February 1913-18 February 1920. He was President of the Republic.
Raymond Poincaré, the president of the French Republic, asserted his authority as early as 1914, in a manner contrary to institutional practices that had prevailed since 1877. After his August 1914 call for a political truce or “union sacrée”, Poincaré remained a major actor in governmental decisions until the autumn of 1917.
Raymond Poincaré is the only political figure to have exercised as decisive an influence on the first half of the Third Republic as the second. In a political career which ran from 1887 to 1929 he held most of the major offices of state both before and after the First World War.
A "Secular Republican" and man of order, he was elected President of the Republic on the 17th January 1913. Faced with the prospect of war, he got the three year military service law voted through in August and, on the overseas front, strengthened alliances by making a second trip to Russia in July 1914.
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Raymond Poincaré was one of the most visible political figures in the Third Republic in the first decades of the twentieth century. A deputy at age twenty-seven, minister at thirty-three, in 1912 he was appointed prime minister.
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May 29, 2018 · The French statesman Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934) served as president of France during World War I and four times as its premier. French politics from 1912 to 1929 was largely dominated by the figures of Raymond Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau.
