1. In 1912 Millerand was appointed as war minister in Poincare's cabinet.
24 Facts About Alexandre Millerand
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Alexandre Millerand returned to the same post during the first year of World War I, helping set French war strategy.
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Alexandre Millerand faced criticism for openly supporting conservative candidates in the 1924 elections and the left majority forced his resignation.
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Alexandre Millerand was brought up in Paris, to Jean-Francois Alexandre Millerand and Amelie-Melanie Cahen of Alsatian Jewish origin, while his paternal family originated from Franche-Comte.
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Alexandre Millerand was baptized in 1860, while his mother converted to Catholicism.
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However, Alexandre Millerand later became an agnostic, even going as far as to participate in a civil marriage ceremony.
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Alexandre Millerand made his reputation through his defence, in company with Georges Laguerre, of Ernest Roche and Duc-Quercy, the instigators of the strike at Decazeville in 1883.
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Alexandre Millerand then took Laguerre's place on Georges Clemenceau's newspaper, La Justice.
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Alexandre Millerand was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Seine departement in 1885 as a Radical Socialist.
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Alexandre Millerand was associated with Clemenceau and Camille Pelletan as an arbitrator in the Carmaux strike.
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Alexandre Millerand had long had the ear of the Chamber in matters of social legislation, and after the Panama scandals had discredited so many politicians, his influence grew.
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Alexandre Millerand was chief of the Independent Socialist faction, a group which then mustered sixty members.
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Alexandre Millerand's programme included the collective ownership of the means of production and the international association of labour.
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Alexandre Millerand further secured the rigorous application of earlier laws devised for the protection of the working class.
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Alexandre Millerand's name was especially associated with a project for the establishment of old age pensions, which became law in 1905.
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Alexandre Millerand twice served as Minister of War, first from 1912 to 1913 and again, during the early stages of World War I, from 1914 to 1915.
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Alexandre Millerand continued to move to the right, being appointed Prime Minister by the conservative President, Paul Deschanel.
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When Deschanel had to resign later in 1920 due to his mental disorder, Alexandre Millerand emerged as a compromise candidate for President between the Bloc National and the remnants of the Bloc des gauches.
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Alexandre Millerand appointed Georges Leygues, a politician with a long career of ministerial office, as Prime Minister and attempted to strengthen the executive powers of the Presidency.
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However, Alexandre Millerand dismissed Briand after just a year, and appointed the conservative republican Raymond Poincare.
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Alexandre Millerand was accused of favouring conservatives in spite of the traditional neutrality of French Presidents and the composition of the legislature.
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On 14 July 1922, Alexandre Millerand escaped an assassination attempt by Gustave Bouvet, a young French anarchist.
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Two years later, on 11 June 1924, Alexandre Millerand resigned in the face of growing conflict between the elected legislature and the office of the President, following the victory of the Cartel des Gauches.
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Alexandre Millerand died in 1943 at Versailles, and was interred in the Passy Cemetery.