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Origin of French street names
In every country there are typical street
names that repeat in every city and let
us know the personalities who played an
important role in the history of the country
and the respective city. Below you will
find a list of street names common
in France and afterwards a list of street
names characteristic of the region of
Champagne - Ardenne.
Aristide Briand Square
Artistide Briand (1862 – 1932) was a French
politician and diplomat, he was president
of the Council eleven times and minister
twenty times. In 1905 he enacted the law
separating the church and the state. He
played an important role in French-German
reconciliation, the Locarno treaties, and the
first project for European integration. He
received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1925.
Jean Jaurès Avenue
Jean Jaurès (1859 – 1914) is one of the great
proponents of the French socialism. An anticolonialist,
pacifist and a great speaker, he
defended the underdogs, from the miners
to captain Dreyfus. Because of his opposition
to France‘s entry into the war in 1914, he
was assassinated in the middle of Paris by
Raoul Villain, a nationalist.
Georges Clémenceau
Avenue
Among the great politicians of the Third
Republic three were equally successful at
the Tribune of the Parliament and as writers:
Jaurès, Gambetta and Clemenceau. Georges
Clémenceau (1841 – 1929) won more
than one battle during his political carrier of
half of a century. From the „destroyer of
ministries“ to „Father of Victory“ through
the „strike breaker“ and as an ardent
defender of Dreyfus, was a man of numerous
triumphs. He was president of the Council
in 1914.
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