(born May 21, 1851, Paris, France—died Sept. 29, 1925, Château d'Oger, near Épernay) French politician. He entered the civil service in 1876 and was elected to the National Assembly in 1888.
He served in several ministerial posts and was briefly premier (1895–96). He was a member of the Senate in 1905–23 and its president from 1920. An advocate of international cooperation, he was appointed to the International Court of Justice in 1903. In 1919 he was France's representative to the League of Nations, emerging as its champion. For this, in 1920 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
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