Editing Georges Clemenceau (section)

==Marriage and family==
[[File:Mary Clémenceau, by Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mary Plummer|Mary Clemenceau]] in period costume. Portrait by [[Ferdinand Roybet]]]]

On 23 June 1869, he married [[Mary Plummer|Mary Eliza Plummer]] (1849–1922), in New York City. She had attended the school where he taught horseback riding and was one of his students. She was the daughter of Harriet A. Taylor and William Kelly Plummer.

Following their marriage, the Clemenceaus moved to France. They had three children together, Madeleine (born in 1870), Thérèse (1872) and Michel (1873).<ref name=":0" />

Although Clemenceau had many mistresses, when his wife took a tutor of their children as her lover, Clemenceau had her put in jail for two weeks and then sent her back to the United States on a steamer in third class. The marriage ended in a contentious divorce in 1891.<ref>Watson (1976), pp. 23–32.</ref> He obtained custody of their children. He then had his wife stripped of French nationality.