Word: painlev
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Paul Painlevé, Premier of France for a brief period in 1917, has sought to put an end to the ex post facto argument between him and ex-Premier Clémenceau, as to which of them appointed Marshals Foch and Pétain to commands during the War. He published a new book entitled How I Appointed Foch and Pétain...
...argument centers around the discovery of General Foch, who was at that time in temporary retirement. Clémenceau claimed the honor of appointing him as Chief of the French General Staff in 1917, but M. Painlevé asserts in his book that he alone did the good deed...
...Paul Painlevé was born in Paris in 1863, and in his early childhood was forced to go through the siege of that city in 1870. After having finished his studies, he became a professor at the Lille University and later returned to Paris as a professor in the Ecole Polytechnique. It was when he was there that he was rather unnecessarily drawn into the Dreyfus case. In politics he is violently anticlerical, but is said to have too much ingenuousness in his character to make a good politician. Early in the War he was Minister of War under Premier...