About
Aristide Briand (1862-1932) was a French politician and a major figure of the Third Republic. A deputy from 1902, he was rapporteur for the 1905 law separating church and state. He served as Prime Minister eleven times and as Foreign Minister from 1925 to 1932. He negotiated the Locarno Treaties (1925) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. In 1929, he proposed a federal union of Europe to the League of Nations.
* 1862-03-28 — † 1932-03-07
Key milestones
- 1905Rapporteur for the law separating church and state.
- 1926Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the Locarno Treaties.
- 1928Co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed by 60 nations.
Themes
Peace and collective securitySecularismEuropean cooperationMultilateral diplomacyRepublican socialism
Sources: nobelprize.org · cvce.eu