Background
Édouard Marie Hérriot was born on 5 July 1872 at Troyes, France.
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Édouard Marie Hérriot was born on 5 July 1872 at Troyes, France.
Herriot early distinguished himself at the College Sainte Barbe, the Lycee Louis le Grand, and, after abandoning plans for a military career (his father was an army officer), the Ecole Normale, Superieure, from which he graduated with the highest honors in 1894.
Then followed a decade of brilliant teaching at Nantes and Lyon, during which time he completed his doctoral thesis, published as Madame de RécamierRecamier et ses amis ("Madame Recamier and Her Friends"; 1904).
Drawn into politics during the Dreyfus Affair, he became a member of the Lyon municipal council in 1904 and mayor in 1905, a position he was to hold almost without a break for more than half a century.
During World War I he served as minister of public works in the cabinet of Aristide Briand.
The elections of 1924, sweeping in the Cartel des Gauches (the left-wing coalition) gave Herriot the opportunity to form his first government (June 14), with a program of shorter military service, easing of relations with the German Republic, abrogation of the concordat with Rome existing in Alsace and Lorraine, and wholehearted cooperation with the League of Nations.
The Academie Francaise received him among its Forty Immortals on June 26, 1947.
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