Clemenceau et la Roumanie

Abstract

Clemenceau’s favorable predispositions to the cause of nationalities and to the revenge on Germany favored Romania’s national aspirations even before the First World War. During the war, until he accedded to power in November 1917, he exerted intense pressure in favor of Romania’s entry into the conflict on the side of the Entente, then, once it occurred in August 1916, its (difficult) maintening in the fight. At the Paris Peace Conference, he favored its territorial aspirations in exchange for integration into the French post-war security system that Anglo-Americans viewed with suspicion.

Keywords

• Clemenceau
• Romania
• First World War
• diplomatic history
• military history
• Peace Conference of 1919