What is Aristide Briand?
{{Nobelprize|peace}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox Prime Minister | name = Aristide Briand | image = Aristide Briand 07.jpg |term_start = 24 July 1909 | term_end = 2 March 1911 | predecessor = [[Georges Clemenceau]] | successor = [[Ernest Monis]] | term_start2 = 21 January 1913 | term_end2 = 22 March 1913 | predecessor2 = [[Raymond Poincaré]] | successor2 = [[Louis Barthou]] | term_start3 = 29 October 1915 | term_end3 = 20 March 1917 | predecessor3 = [[René Viviani]] | successor3 = [[Alexandre Ribot]] | term_start4 = 16 January 1921 | term_end4 = 15 January 1922 | predecessor4 = [[Georges Leygues]] | successor4 = [[Raymond Poincaré]] | term_start5 = 28 November 1925 | term_end5 = 20 July 1926 | predecessor5 = [[Paul Painlevé]] | successor5 = [[Édouard Herriot]] | office = [[Prime Minister of France]] | term_start6 = 29 July 1929 | term_end6 = 2 November 1929 | predecessor6 = [[Raymond Poincaré]] | successor6 = [[André Tardieu]] | birth_date = 28 March 1862 | birth_place = Nantes | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1932|3|7|1862|3|28}} | death_place = Paris | party = [[Socialist Party (France)|SFIO]]<br /> [[Republican-Socialist Party|PRS]] }} '''Aristide Briand''' ({{IPA-fr|a.ʁis.tid bʁi.jɑ̃|lang}}; 28 March 1862 – 7 March 1932) became the [[Prime Minister of France]] in 1909. He participated in the movement for labour-union formation and also in drafting the law of separation of church and state. Briand was criticised for trying to make peace with [[Germany]]. However, it was Briand who played a leading role in formulating the Locarno Pact, a [[treaty]] intended to establish peace in western [[Europe]] and ease relations with [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite book |title=100 Great Leaders |last=Frederick |first=Robert |year=2005 |location=India |isbn=0-7554-3390-4 }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1926/briand-bio.html Nobel biography] * [http://www.tiki-toki.com/t