Background
He was born in Paris, France on September 22, 1876.
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He was born in Paris, France on September 22, 1876.
He was admitted to the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1895, but caused a sensation by leaving the school immediately.
He became a journalist, specializing in foreign policy problems. He founded the conservative newspaper L'Echo National in association with Georges Mandel. He taught at Harvard University in 1908, at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in 1909, and was appointed professor of political science at the Ecole Superieure de Guerre in 1911.
A member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1914 to 1924, he nevertheless fought in World War I as a reserve officer, was three times wounded and three times cited for bravery. He was sent to the United States with the Joffre mission in 1917. Shortly afterward, he became closely associated with Georges Clemenceau. He thus played a particularly important part in the drafting of the political and territorial clauses of that treaty.
He was minister of liberated regions, 1919-1920, minister of public works, 1926-1928, minister of the interior, 1928, premier, 1929-1930, minister of agriculture in 1931, and premier again in 1932. Throughout this period he stood for Clemenceau's type of strong foreign policy, and he vigorously fought all attempts to revise the Versailles Treaty. From 1933 on, he became outspoken in his criticism of the French régime, regime, although, after the riots of February 1934, he served as minister without portfolio in the conciliation cabinet headed by Gaston Doumergue (February-November 1934). In 1936 he refused to take part in the electoral campaign, and subsequently attacked France's parliamentary system. Early in 1939 he retired to Menton, a town on the French Riviera.
Democratic Alliance (1914–1932), Republican Centre (1932–1936)
Though generally considered a conservative, he introduced a program of welfare measures, including public works, social insurance, and free secondary schooling, and he encouraged modern techniques in industry.
He Tardieu criticized the French parliamentary system.
