Camille Chautemps papers 1885-2005

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947

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Composed originally for clarinet and piano, 1903.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Sarabande et thème varié : pour clarinette basse et piano / Reynaldo Hahn ; orchestrated by Lucien Cailliet. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 49980832 Hahn was a French composer. Madeleine-Jeanne Coll Lemaire (1845-1928 ) was a French painter and illustrator of Marcel Proust’s Les plaisirs et les jours . From the guide to the Reynald...

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994

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First Lady Jacqueline Lee “Jackie” (Bouvier) Kennedy Onassis was a symbol of strength for a traumatized nation after the assassination of one the country’s most energetic political figures, President John F. Kennedy, who served from 1961 to 1963. The inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961 brought to the White House and to the heart of the nation a beautiful young wife and the first young children of a President in half a century. She was born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, daughter of John Verno...

O'Neill, Tip, 1912-1994

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Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., in full Thomas Phillip O’Neill, Jr., byname Tip O’Neill, (born December 19, 1912, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.—died January 5, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts), American politician who served as a Democratic representative from Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–87) and as speaker of the House (1977–86). He was a tireless advocate for social causes, and he frequently expressed his belief that it is the responsibility of the government to contribute to ...

Malliavin, René

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Pomaret, Charles Henri, 1897-

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Biographical/Historical Note French politician; minister of labor, 1938-1940; minister of the interior, 1940. From the guide to the Charles Henri Pomaret typescript : Bordeaux 40, ou Bazaine II, undated, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Pétain, Philippe, 1856-1951

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Marshal and chief of state of France. From the description of Philippe Pétain papers, 1944-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866964 French General of the First World War. From the description of Letter, 1918. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41418433 French minister of war, diplomat, and army officer. From the description of Address of Philippe Pétain, 1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450037 ...

Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970

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Charles Gaulle (b. November 22, 1890, Lille, France-d. November 9, 1970, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France) was a French general, statesman, and veteran of World War I and World War II. He led the Free French Forces during World War II and later served as France's President, 1944-1945; Prime Minister, 1958-1959; and Minister of Defense, 1958-1959, before founding the French Fifth Republic and serving as its first president, 1959-1969. ...

Chevalier, Maurice, 1888-1972

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Epithet: of Add MS 39101 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x000371 ...

Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-2009

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Edward Moore Kennedy (b. Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Mass.-d. Aug. 25, 2009), graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1956, and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1959. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He was elected democratic senator from Massachusetts in 1962, served until his death in August 2009. He was the Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County from 1961 to 1962, and sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1980....

Stavisky, Alexandre, 1886-1934

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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 (Spirit)

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German chancellor and Führer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Munich, to Frau Schwarz, 1940 Jul. 27. (Morgan Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 78912366 Hitler was leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (1920-1921) and chancellor and Führer of Germany (1933-1945). From the guide to the Adolf Hitler collection of calligraphic poems, 1923 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Found i...

Blum, Léon, 1872-1950

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French political leader. From the description of Typewritten letter signed with a line in autograph : New York, to D.N. Heineman, 1946 Apr. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270539364 ...

Henry-Haye, G.

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Romains, Jules, 1885-1972

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Lamoureux, Lucien, 1888-

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Lemaigre-Dubreuil, Jacques, 1894-1955

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Laval, Pierre, 1883-1945

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Laval was a French lawyer and politician who served in the Vichy government during the Nazi occupation of France. From the description of The state versus Pierre Laval, 1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367744 ...

Schuman, Robert, 1886-1963

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Darlan, François, 1881-1942

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Cornu, André

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Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961

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Benjamin Sumner Welles (1892-1961) graduated from Harvard University in 1914 and began his diplomatic career in 1915 as Secretary of the United States Embassy in Tokyo. From 1917 to 1919 he served in a similar post in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was Assistant Chief of the Latin American Affairs Division of the Department of State from 1920 to 1921, and Chief of the Division from 1921 to 1922. From 1922 to 1925, he was Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the Dominican Republic, an...

Piot, Jean

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Prince, Albert, 1883-1934

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Doumergue, Gaston, 1863-1937

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Castagnez, Jean, 1902-

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Reynaud, Paul, 1878-1966

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Élu à la Chambre des députés avec le Bloc national (1919, puis 1928-1940), nommé ministre des Finances, des Colonies, de la Justice (1930-1932), Paul Reynaud (1878-1966) entre dans le cabinet Daladier (avril 1938) comme garde des Sceaux puis ministre des Finances. Il fait alors adopter la dévaluation du franc, la diminution des dépenses de l’État et l’augmentation des impôts pour faire face aux dépenses militaires. Président du Conseil (mars 1940), il décide avec Churchill d’envoyer un corps exp...

Guernut, Henri, 1876-1943

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Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949

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Maeterlinck was a Belgian Symbolist poet, playwright, and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. Colles (1855-1926) was a English journalist, literary agent, and founder and managing director of Authors' Syndicate in London, England. From the guide to the Maurice Maeterlinck letters to William Morris Colles, 1921-1929., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist. ...

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...

Chautemps, Camille, 1885-1963

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Chautemps was a French politician and radical socialist leader. He was premier in 1930 and in 1933-34. A member of the first Popular Front cabinet of Socialists and Communists (1936-37) under Leon Blum, he headed the second, less radical, Popular Front cabinet (1937-38). Vice premier of the Vichy government, Chautemps came to the United States in 1940 on a mission and did not return to France. In 1947 he was tried and convicted in absentia for collaborating with the Vichy regime; in 1954 his sen...

Cox, Edward E. (Edward Eugene), 1880-1952

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Edward Eugene Cox (b. Apr. 3, 1880-d. Dec. 24, 1952), U.S. congressman. From the description of Cox, Edward E. (Edward Eugene), 1880-1952 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10598742 ...

Thibaud, Jacques

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French violinist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 3 August 1906, to an unidentified recipient, 1906 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677634 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 6 June 1912, to an unidentified recipient, 1912 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677637 ...

Michelson, Charles, 1869-1948

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Bullitt, William C. (William Christian), 1891-1967

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William Christian Bullitt (b. Jan. 25, 1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-d. Feb. 1967), was Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. from 1933 to 1936, and to France from 1936 to 1941. He was ambassador at large in 1941 and 1942, and special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy in 1942 and 1943. He began his career at the State Department in 1917 where he also served as an attaché to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the end of World War I. In 1944 he joined the French Army and was a major in the...

Daladier, Édouard, 1884-1970

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Weygand, Maxime, 1867-1965

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General, French army; commmander-in-chief, 1940. From the description of Maxime Weygand memorandum, ca. 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868071 Biographical/Historical Note General, French army; commmander-in-chief, 1940. From the guide to the Maxime Weygand memorandum, 1940, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Rougier, Louis Auguste Paul, 1889-

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Auriol, Vincent, 1884-1966

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Bonnet, Georges Étienne, 1889-

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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30 November 1874. He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before joining the Army in 1895 and serving in India and Sudan. After leaving the Army in 1899, he worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post and the following year was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Oldham. In 1904, Churchill decided to join the Liberal Party, and in 1906, was elected Liberal MP f...