Word: ribot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They were: Briand himself (Premier and Foreign Minister), Viviani (Justice), Ribot (Finance), Doumergue (Colonies), Meline (Agriculture), and, serving as "Ministers without Portfolio," Combes, Leon Bourgeois and de Freycinet...
...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 Ribot. It is from about this time that his enmity for Clémenceau dates. Previously they were good if not cordial friends...