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Born December 5, 1863 • Paris • France
Died October 29, 1933 (aged 69) • Paris • France
Title / Office prime minister (1925-1925), France • prime minister (1917-1917), France
Political Affiliation Cartel des Gauches
Subjects Of Study differential equation • function • three-body problem • transformation • aviation
Role In World War I

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Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé, drawing by A. Bilis, 1930.
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Joseph-Simon Gallieni
Joseph-Simon Gallieni
French military officer
Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch
marshal of France
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
French general
Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre
Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre
French general
François de La Rocque
French politician
Charles Lanrezac
French general
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.
American financier
Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta
French statesman
Édouard Herriot
Édouard Herriot
French statesman
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France
Philip II.
Philip II
king of France
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
French statesman
Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official
François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois
French statesman
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian
Léon Blum.
Léon Blum
premier of France

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