Editing Georges Clemenceau (section)

===Cabinet and office of Prime Minister===
In March 1906, the ministry of [[Maurice Rouvier]] fell as a result of [[Inventory Controversy|civil disturbances]] provoked by the implementation of the law on the separation of church and state and the victory of radicals in the [[1906 French legislative election|French legislative elections of 1906]]. The new ministry of [[Ferdinand Sarrien]] appointed Clemenceau as Minister of the Interior. On a domestic level, Clemenceau reformed the [[French police]] forces and ordered repressive policies toward the workers' movement. He supported the formation of scientific police by [[Alphonse Bertillon]] and founded the ''Brigades mobiles'' ("mobile squads") led by [[Célestin Hennion]]. These squads were nicknamed ''Brigades du Tigre'' ("The Tiger's Brigades") after Clemenceau, who was nicknamed "The Tiger".<ref name="Watson, 1976"/>

The miners' strike in the [[Pas de Calais]], after the [[Courrières mine disaster]] resulted in the death of more than one thousand persons, threatened widespread disorder on 1 May 1906. Clemenceau ordered the military against the strikers and also repressed the wine growers strike in [[Languedoc-Roussillon]]. His actions alienated the [[French Section of the Workers' International]] (SFIO) (the socialist party). He definitively broke with the SFIO in his notable reply in the Chamber of Deputies to SFIO leader [[Jean Jaurès]] in June 1906. Clemenceau's speech positioned him as the strong man of the day in French politic; when the Sarrien ministry resigned in October, Clemenceau became premier.{{sfn|Chisholm|1910|p=482}}

After a proposal by the deputy [[Paul Dussaussoy]] for limited women's suffrage in local elections, Clemenceau published a pamphlet in 1907 in which he declared that if women were given the vote France would return to the [[Middle Ages]].{{sfn|Gazdar|2016|loc=PT56}}

As the [[revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers]] developed Clemenceau at first dismissed the complaints, then sent in troops to keep the peace in June 1907.{{sfn|Castillon|2007}}

During 1907 and 1908, he led the development of a new ''[[Entente cordiale]]'' with Britain, which gave France a successful role in European politics.{{sfn|Chisholm|1910|p=482}} Difficulties with Germany and criticism by the Socialist party in connection with the handling of the [[First Moroccan Crisis]] in 1905–06 were settled at the [[Algeciras Conference]].

Clemenceau's ministry fell on 20 July 1909. During a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the state of the navy, he exchanged bitter words with [[Théophile Delcassé]]. Refusing to respond to Delcassé's technical questions, Clemenceau resigned after his motion for the order of the day was defeated. He was succeeded as premier by [[Aristide Briand]], with a reconstructed cabinet.{{sfn|Chisholm|1910|p=482}}

Between 1909 and 1912, Clemenceau dedicated his time to travel, conferences, and the treatment of his illness. He went to South America in 1910, traveling to [[Brazil]], [[Uruguay]], and [[Argentina]] (where he went as far as [[Santa Ana, Tucumán|Santa Ana (Tucuman)]] in northwest Argentina). There, he was amazed by the influence of French culture and of the [[French Revolution]] on local elites.<ref>G. Clemenceau, ''Notes de voyage dans l'Amérique du Sud'', Hachette, 1911</ref>

He published the first issue of the ''Journal du Var'' on 10 April 1910. Three years later, on 6 May 1913, he founded the newspaper ''L'Homme libre'' ("The Free Man") in Paris, for which he wrote a daily editorial. In these media, Clemenceau focused increasingly on foreign policy and condemned the [[anti-militarism]] of the Socialists.