Millerand

[ meel-rahn ]

noun

1. A·le·xan·dre [a, -lek-, sahn, -d, r, uh], 1859–1943, president of France 1920–24.

Example Sentences

The agent of the Dreyfus politics had the happy thought of introducing into the Cabinet, Millerand, the Socialist leader, with the consent of his party.

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M. Millerand: "That is a mea culpa."

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Assisted by President Poincaré and Millerand, Minister of War, he set out to reform the army.

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Its opponents attributed this to the presence in the cabinet of M. Millerand, who had been ranked as a Socialist.

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The presence of his colleague, M. Millerand, on this occasion showed that M. Waldeck-Rousseau did not intend to separate himself from the Radical-Socialist group which had supported his government; and the next day the Socialist minister of commerce, at Firminy, a mining centre in the same department, made a speech deprecating the pursuit of unpractical social ideals, which might have been a version of Gambetta’s famous discourse on opportunism edited by an economist of the school of L�on Say.

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