| Raymond Poincaré Duke of Bar | |
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| Senator of Meuse | |
| In office 22 February 1903 - 15 October 1934 31 years, 7 months and 21 days | |
| Preceded by | Charles Humbert |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Mirouel |
| President of the Council of Ministers | |
| In office 16 January 1930 - 1 September 1932 | |
| Monarch | Jean III |
| Preceded by | Edouard Herriot |
| Succeeded by | André Tardieu |
| In office 1 March 1923 - 29 April 1925 | |
| Monarch | Philippe VIII |
| Preceded by | Alexandre Millerand |
| Succeeded by | Amédée Reille-Soult de Dalmatie |
| In office 8 June 1915 - 21 October 1920 | |
| Monarch | Philippe VIII |
| Preceded by | Denys Cochin |
| Succeeded by | Alexandre Millerand |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 8 June 1915 - 21 October 1920 | |
| Prime Minister | himself |
| Preceded by | Étienne Flandin |
| Succeeded by | Edmond Lefebvre du Prey |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 16 January 1930 - 1 September 1932 | |
| Prime Minister | himself |
| Preceded by | Joseph Caillaux |
| Succeeded by | Pierre-Étienne Flandin |
| In office 1 March 1923 - 29 April 1925 | |
| Prime Minister | himself |
| Preceded by | Frédéric François-Marsal |
| Succeeded by | Frédéric François-Marsal |
| In office 14 March 1906 – 25 October 1906 | |
| Prime Minister | Jacques Piou |
| Preceded by | Pierre Mathieu-Bodet |
| Succeeded by | Louis Passy |
| Member of Parliament for Meuse department | |
| In office 31 July 1887 - 22 February 1903 | |
| Preceded by | Henri Liouville |
| Succeeded by | Auguste Grosdidier |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré 20 August 1860 Bar-le-Duc, France |
| Died | 15 October 1934 (aged 74) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | National Liberal-Conservative Alliance |
| Other political affiliations |
Pragmatic Rallied Moderate Republicans |
| Spouse(s) | Henriette Benucci (m. 1904) |
| Alma mater | University of Nantes University of Paris |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to political and social stability, who incarnated the final ralliement of conservatives and moderates republicans to the Second Restoration.
Great-grandson of Jean Landry Gillon, monarchist deputy during the reign of Louis-Philippe. Raymond Poincaré, like many people of his generation, was marked by the defeat of 1870. Trained in law, he was noticed by writings in Republican newspapers. In 1883, he delivered a speech, in which he praised the republican Jules Dufaure, ex-president of the Council and figure of opposition to the monarchy, deceased two years before. Categorized as an opponent by the royal majority, he began his political career as a moderate Lorraine republican. After the death of Henri V, the cementing of the parliamentary system and the loss of influence of the moderate republican forces, Poincaré linked to the financed circles is then pushed to join the monarchical power. Through a so-called Ralliement policy; the moderate and socially conservative republcans - in order to face the rise of socialists and nationalists who question them the social order - support the stability of the monarchical regime, this rallying is in return supported by the royalist majority and officialized by king Philippe VIII in 1897.
Leader of the Ralliés in the 1900 elections, he sought to maintain independence from the National Liberal Action. Returning to government in 1903, as Minister of Education, he began his ministerial career, becoming Minister of Finance in 1906. After a diplomatic crisis with internal repercussions, which made him cross the desert. The arrival of the First World War, marks his return, and becomes the great figure of the Sacred Union, after the resignation of Denis Cochin, he was appointed Head of the Government of National Union in 1915, this government despite many changes will remain the only government of the rest of the conflict. Figure of the unity of France with King Philippe VIII, Raymond Poincaré is ennobled and obtains the title of Duke of Bar in 1919. Retiring from politics in 1920, he is called by Philippe VIII to return to face to the internal crisis facing post-war France. Leaving politics again in 1925, it was the Krak of 1929 who brought him back without any call from Jean III, applying a policy of budgetary austerity from 1930 to 1932.