Léon Jouhaux: Facts & Related Content

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Facts

Born July 1, 1879 • ParisFrance
Died April 28, 1954 (aged 74) • ParisFrance
Founder International Labour Organization
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1951)
Role In Battle for Castle Itter

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Briand, 1913
Aristide Briand
prime minister of France
Léon Bourgeois, lithograph by Brunscher, c. 1900
Léon Bourgeois
French politician and statesman
Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson
Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson
French educator
René Waldeck-Rousseau; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
René Waldeck-Rousseau
French politician
Albert Thomas
Albert Thomas
French statesman
Guesde, 1906
Jules Guesde
French socialist
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Alain Juppé
prime minister of France
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary
Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France