President Raymond Poincare


Poincare had been prime minister and foreign minister of France before being elected President in 1913. France was a very unstable political unit before the war, there had been ten different governments in the five years before the war broke out. Poincare knew that his role was only ceremonial, but tried to use it to unite the French nation together. Generally, he was successful in this, even during the 1917 mutinies and crises.


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by Stephen Luscombe