Listen to the rest of the story dedicated to Georges Clemenceau by historian Virginie Girod. After having been mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris during the Commune and deputy at the beginning of the Belle Époque, he became Minister of the Interior in 1906. His love of justice pushed Clemenceau to tackle another project. Police reform in a crime-ridden France. In 1907, he was about to found the ancestor of the judicial police: the Tiger Brigades! The strict supervision of the demonstrations of the miners of the north earned him to be considered a strikebreaker. He is now credited with the expression of the first "cop" of France. Clemenceau, however, remained a man of the left. But in the name of justice, he promotes order. "Au cœur de l'Histoire" is a Europe 1 Studio production.

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Listen to the rest of the story dedicated to Georges Clemenceau by historian Virginie Girod. After having been mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris during the Commune and deputy at the beginning of the Belle Époque, he became Minister of the Interior in 1906. His love of justice pushed Clemenceau to tackle another project. Police reform in a crime-ridden France. In 1907, he was about to found the ancestor of the judicial police: the Tiger Brigades! The strict supervision of the demonstrations of the miners of the north earned him to be considered a strikebreaker. He is now credited with the expression of the first "cop" of France. Clemenceau, however, remained a man of the left. But in the name of justice, he promotes order. "Au cœur de l'Histoire" is a Europe 1 Studio production.Topics covered: Third Republic - Justice - Police - Order - Panama Scandal - Belle Époque - The Commune - Treaty of Versailles