WI Clemenceau Assassinated, 1919?

On 19 Februray 1919, Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France and the French delegate to the Paris Peace Conferance, was shot by an anarchist, Eugene Cottin, outside his home.

Of the seven bullets fired into Clemenceau's car, only one actually hit him, in his chest, missing vital organs. Clemenceau recovered quickly from his injury, returning to work a week later, and joking that the assassin's poor aim was an insult to France and her monumental war effort, and that Cottin's prison sentence should include intensive training at a shooting range.

Suppose Clemenceau had not been so lucky that Februray morning, and that Cottin's aim had proved better. What would the implications be for French domestic politics, the Peace Conference, and so on?
 
Third Republic was politically very unstable something like this could lead to it's early fall.

Not at this time! The ministerial instability would come in the Twenties. And please never forget that all in all, the Third Republic remains to this day to most enduring and stable political regime France had since the Revolution! It took a cataclysmic military defeat at the beginning of World War 2 for the Third Republic to fall.

As for your POD, I'm not sure it would have made such a big difference. Clemenceau was an advocate of maximum harshness towards Germany, and this had dramatic effects in the long term, but I'm not convinced that any likely successor would have been more moderate.

And don't forget that Clemenceau retired from politics in 1920, after being beaten by a non-entity called Paul Deschanel for the Presidency of the Republic, so his being killed in 1919 would only accelerate slightly what happened in our timeline.
 
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And don't forget that Clemenceau retired from politics in 1920, after being beaten by a non-entity called Paul Deschanel for the Presidency of the Republic, so his being killed in 1919 would only accelerate slightly what happened in our timeline.
He may have been out by 1920, but he was the chief French player at the Conferance, part of the Council of Four. Knocking him off might be a de-stabilizing influence on everyone. "Not even the Council of Four is safe from the anarchists/Bolshevists" etc.
 
I've always wondered about this one myself, but more so as to how it would effect the French position at the Versailles conference.

Is there a chance someone more reasonable takes over the negotiations for France and tempers French demands to the point of a more equitable peace that doesn't humiliate Germany and pretty much guarantee a second World War and if so, who would/could that be?
 
I've always wondered about this one myself, but more so as to how it would effect the French position at the Versailles conference.

Is there a chance someone more reasonable takes over the negotiations for France and tempers French demands to the point of a more equitable peace that doesn't humiliate Germany and pretty much guarantee a second World War and if so, who would/could that be?
I can't seem to find the provision for who would step in for Clemenceau, even temporarily, under Third Republic procedure.

And I'm not sure if the French can afford to demand any less than they did, if only for the sake of public opinion.
 
Not at this time! The ministerial instability would come in the Twenties. And please never forget that all in all, the Third Republic remains to this day to most enduring and stable political regime France had since the Revolution! It took a cataclysmic military defeat at the beginning of World War 2 for the Third Republic to fall.

As for your POD, I'm not sure it would have made such a big difference. Clemenceau was an advocate of maximum harshness towards Germany, and this had dramatic effects in the long term, but I'm not convinced that any likely successor would have been more moderate.

And don't forget that Clemenceau retired from politics in 1920, after being beaten by a non-entity called Paul Deschanel for the Presidency of the Republic, so his being killed in 1919 would only accelerate slightly what happened in our timeline.
The third republic was instable by 1919 in fact the "belle epoque" lasted from 1879 to 1914 after that it was a long and painful decline.
 
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