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115 - [Georges Clémenceau / Manuscript] An autograph manuscript by Georges Clémenceau addressed to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper *The Forum*, in which he justifies France’s rearmament by citing Bismarck’s outrages and the unjust annexation of Alsace and Lorraine: 10 pages numbered 1 through 10 and bound together in a folder titled *Germany’s Permanent State of Ingratitude*, 21.5 x 13.5 cm. The mention of Istvan Tisva, the Hungarian prime minister, allows the manuscript to be dated between 1903 and 1913. A typewritten transcription is included.
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[Georges Clémenceau / Manuscript] An autograph manuscript by Georges Clémenceau addressed to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper *The Forum*, in which he justifies France’s rearmament by citing Bismarck’s outrages and the unjust annexation of Alsace and Lorraine: 10 pages numbered 1 through 10 and bound together in a folder titled *Germany’s Permanent State of Ingratitude*, 21.5 x 13.5 cm. The mention of Istvan Tisva, the Hungarian prime minister, allows the manuscript to be dated between 1903 and 1913. A typewritten transcription is included. The manuscript begins as follows: “To the editor of The Forum. The question you ask me—‘What are the French people’s feelings toward the Germans?’—no doubt seems to you the most natural in the world. In France, we would readily consider it unnecessary, in that we make no secret of our feelings; indeed, we are commonly criticized abroad for being inclined to flaunt them; and if there is one point on which all French people of all political parties agree, it is certainly this one…»
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