Gouvernement Aristide Briand (4)

minister to draw up a subtle order of seniority. The first holder was Aristide Briand in 1914, chosen at the start of World War I by René Viviani; as the

Public Instruction and Fine Arts from 1908, replacing Aristide Briand. In this capacity, on 4 June 1908, he delivered a speech on behalf of the government

Voltaire; poet Victor Hugo; politicians Léon Gambetta, Jean Jaurès and Aristide Briand; and writers Alphonse de Lamartine and Albert Camus. Prior to 1791

Raymond Poincaré, Aristide Briand and Tardieu had offered ministerial posts to Herriot's Radicals but to no avail. Besides Briand, André Maginot, Pierre-Étienne

Senate triumphed. The blow damaged Bourgeois's career as an homme de gouvernement. As Minister of Public Instruction in the Brisson cabinet of 1898, he