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Thiers

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Thiers  (t-r), Louis Adolphe 1797-1877.
French politician and historian who was the first president (1871-1873) of the republic formed after the fall of Napoleon III.
Thiers (French) [tjɛr]
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(Biographies / Thiers, Louis Adolphe (1797-1877) M, French, POLITICS: statesman, HISTORY: historian, POLITICS: head of state) Louis Adolphe (lwi adɔlf). 1797-1877, French statesman and historian. After the Franco-Prussian war, he suppressed the Paris Commune and became first president of the Third Republic (1871-73). His policies made possible the paying off of the war indemnity exacted by Germany


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"The young Cossack made his mighty interlocutor smile," says Thiers.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
French and German works predominated, the old French dramatists, sundry modern authors, Thiers, Villemain, Paul de Kock, George Sand, Eugene Sue; in German--Goethe, Schiller, Zschokke, Jean Paul Richter; in English there were works on Political Economy.
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