Leon Bourgeois

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Leon Bourgeois
64t Prime Meenister o Fraunce
In office
1 November 1895 ? 29 Aprile 1896
Preses Felix Faure
Precedit bi Alexandre Ribot
Succeedit bi Jules Meline
Personal details
Born 21 Mey 1851 ( 1851-05-21 )
Paris
Dee'd 29 September 1925 (1925-09-29) (aged 74)
Epernay
Poleetical pairty None
Alma mater Universite de Paris

Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois ( French:  [le?? bu??wa] ; 29 Mey 1851 – 29 September 1925) wis a French statesman. His ideas influenced the Radical Party regairdin a wide range o issues. He promotit progressive taxation such as progressive income taxes an social insurance schemes, [1] alang wi economic equality , expandit eddicational opportunities , an cooperative solidarism . In foreign policy, he cried for a strang League o Naitions, an the maintenance o peace throu compulsory arbitration , controlled disairmament , economic sanctions , an aiblins an internaitional military force.

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  1. J. E. S. Hayward, "The Official Philosophy of the French Third Republic: Leon Bourgeois and Solidarism," International Review of Social History, (1961) 6#1 pp 19-48