Editing Georges Clemenceau (section)

==Last years==
[[File:Clemenceau LCCN2014715402.jpg|thumb|Clemenceau visited the United States in 1922|320x320px]]
Clemenceau resigned as prime minister as soon as the presidential election was held (17 January 1920) and took no further part in politics. In private, he condemned the unilateral occupation by French troops of the German city of [[Frankfurt]] in 1920 and said if he had been in power, he would have persuaded the British to join it.<ref name="Watson387"/>

He took a holiday in [[Egypt]] and the [[Sudan]] from February to April 1920, then embarked for the Far East in September, returning to France in March 1921. In June, he visited England and received an honorary degree from the [[University of Oxford]]. He met [[Lloyd George]] and said to him that after the armistice he had become the enemy of France. Lloyd George replied, "Well, was not that always our traditional policy?" He was joking, but after reflection, Clemenceau took it seriously. After Lloyd George's fall from power in 1922 Clemenceau remarked, "As for France, it is a real enemy who disappears. Lloyd George did not hide it: at my last visit to London he cynically admitted it".<ref>Watson, p. 388.</ref>

In late 1922, Clemenceau gave a lecture tour in the major cities of the American northeast. He defended the policy of France, including war debts and reparations, and condemned [[United States non-interventionism|American isolationism]]. He was well received and attracted large audiences, but America's policy remained unchanged. On 9 August 1926, he wrote an open letter to the American President [[Calvin Coolidge]] that argued against France paying all its war debts: "France is not for sale, even to her friends". This appeal went unheard.<ref>Watson, p. 389.</ref>

He condemned Poincaré's [[occupation of the Ruhr]] in 1923 as an undoing of the entente between France and Britain.<ref name="Watson387"/>

He wrote two short biographies, one of the Greek orator [[Demosthenes]] and one of the French painter [[Claude Monet]]. He also penned a huge two-volume tome, covering philosophy, history, and science, entitled ''Au Soir de la Pensée''. Writing this occupied most of his time between 1923 and 1927.<ref>Watson, pp. 390–391.</ref>

[[File:Clemenceau sépulture 001.jpg|thumb|Clemenceau's grave at [[Mouchamps]]]]
During his last months, he wrote his memoirs, despite declaring previously that he would not write them. He was spurred into doing so by the appearance of Marshal Foch's memoirs, which were highly critical of Clemenceau, mainly for his policy at the Paris Peace Conference. Clemenceau only had time to finish the first draft and it was published posthumously as ''[https://archive.org/details/grandeuretmisere0000clem Grandeurs et miseres d'une victoire]'' (''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173629/page/n5/mode/2up Grandeur and Misery of Victory]''). He was critical of Foch and also of his successors who had allowed the Versailles Treaty to be undermined in the face of Germany's revival. He burned all of his private letters.

Clemenceau died on 24 November 1929 and was buried in a simple grave next to his father's at [[Mouchamps]].