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May 29, 2018 · POINCARÉ, RAYMOND (1860–1934), French politician. Born in Bar-le-Duc (Meuse) in Lorraine on 20 August 1860, Raymond Poincaré occupied the highest offices of the French state, including president of the republic, in a political career that ran from 1886 to 1934.
Updated : 15 December 2022. Raymond Poincaré, (1860-1934) was President of the French Republic from 1913 to 1920. He was the ninth President of the Third Republic.
President of the French Republic. Born 20 August 1860 in Bar-le-Duc, France. Died 15 October 1934 in Paris, France. Raymond Poincaré, the president of the French Republic, asserted his authority as early as 1914, in a manner contrary to institutional practices that had prevailed since 1877.
Raymond Poincaré was one of the most visible political figures in the Third Republic in the first decades of the twentieth century. A deputy at age twenty-seven, minister at thirty-three, in 1912 he was appointed prime minister .
Due to illness, Poincaré resigned in July 1929 and concentrated on writing his Memoirs, Au service de la France (Serving France) (1926-1933). He died on the 15th October 1934. Following a state funeral held in Paris, he was buried in Nubécourt. < Back to the list of personalities.
Overview. Raymond Poincaré. (1860—1934) Quick Reference. (b. 20 Aug. 1860, d. 15 Oct. 1934). President of France 1913–20; Prime Minister 1912–13, 1922–4, 1926–9 A member of the Chamber of Deputies 1887–1903, he was a Senator 1903–13, and 1920–9.
Raymond Poincaré is a subtle and fascinating portrait of this most prominent, yet most elusive, of European leaders. Was the first scholarly biography in English of a major statesperson Uses material from Ministry of Finance archives as well as the Poincaré diaries which were unavailable to MIQUEL (1961)
