TARDIEU, ANDRE PIERRE GABRIEL AMEDEE (1876- ), French politician and writer, was born in Paris on Sept. 22, 1876. Educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure, he was chef de cabinet to Waldeck-Rousseau from 1899 to 1902. From 1902 to 1914 he lectured at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques and the Ecole Superieure de la Guerre, and was foreign news editor on Le Temps. Entering the chamber of deputies in 1914 he acted as special commissioner in the United States (1917-18), member of the Peace Conference (1918-19), and minister of the liberated regions (1919-2o). As captain of Chasseurs between 1914 and 1916, he was wounded and three times mentioned in despatches. At the Peace Conference (1919) he had a considerable share in drafting the political and territorial clauses. He presided over the Committee of Five which drafted the Allied Reply to the German Observations on the draft terms of the Peace Treaty. Tardieu also presided over the Alsace-Lorraine Committee, the Commit tee of the Saar and that of the execution of the treaty.
Tardieu's political attitude was characterized by his inflexible attachment to the policy of Clemenceau, with whom he was asso ciated in the closest collaboration for war and for peace. Three
times in succession, between 1919 and 1924, he refused to enter the Government, in order to maintain his independent defence of this policy. As director of the Echo National, the daily paper founded by Clemenceau and himself, he waged a fierce war, in foreign affairs, against the successive revisions of the Treaty of Versailles; and in internal affairs, against the steps which paved the way for the victory of the cartel des gauches. Between 1924 and 1926 he had no seat in the Chamber, but in Feb. 1926 he was again elected. He was premier, 1929-30, and again in 1932; and was prominent at the London Naval Conference, 1930.
Tardieu was the author of the following historical works: Questions Diploniatiques (1905) ; France and the Alliances (1908) ; La conference d'Algesiras (1909) ; Le Prince de Bulow (1909) ; Fiirst v. Bulow (1910) ; La France et les alliances (Iwo); Le mystere d'Agadir (1912); Notes sur les Etats-Unis (1917); L'Amerique en armes (1919); La Paix (1921) ; Le Slesvig et la Paix (1925).