The rediscovery of Alexandre Ribot (1842-1923) is an opportunity to highlight an emblematic figure of the Third Republic Read More
Alexandre Ribot (1842-1923) was a major figure of the Third Republic, and a renowned representative of the Pas-de-Calais region, who remains in the shadows of our collective memory. One hundred years after his death, a study of his career's many facets by twenty historians or so, allows us to grasp the importance of this statesman.
As an influential member of parliament, he carried weight with the major legislative debates of his time (protectionism, education, separation of church and state, access to smallholdings, workers' and farmers' pensions). Five times President of the Council, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Interior, Finance and Justice, he governed in difficult times (Panama, the Great War), was one of the architects of the Franco-Russian alliance (1893), then succeeded in financing the war effort and overcoming the various troubles of 1917.
The prosperity of his achievements was therefore immense in all political areas and contributed to the establishment of the regime.