'''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]].