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Line 1: − '''Aristide Briand''' (1862-1932) was a [[French]] socialist statesman born in Nantes.<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref> He served several times as [[Prime Minister of France]] during the turbulent period of governments being voted out of office rather quickly by the French populace. Together with Gustav Stresemann, Briand was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1926 for their work on the Locarno Treaties, which secured the post-World War I borders in Western Europe in exchange for normalizing relations with the new German government. As foreign minister from 1925 to 1932, he co-authored and signed the [[Kellogg-Briand Pact]].+ − − ==References== − − <References/> − − {{DEFAULTSORT:Briand, Aristide}} − − [[Category:Nobel laureates in Peace]] − [[Category:Heads of State]] − [[Category:French People]] − [[category:diplomacy]]
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