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WILSON, Woodrow. Portrait photograph by Harris & Ewing inscribed and signed ("Woodrow Wilson"), TO GEORGES CLEMENCEAU, n.p., n.d. 12¼ x 8 3/8 in., photographer's blindstamp in lower left of image, some very pale matburn, a few ink spots in upper margin , otherwise fine. A very fine half-length portrait of President Wilson, INSCRIBED TO FRENCH PREMIER GEORGES CLEMENCEAU: "To M. Clémenceau With the best wishes of Woodrow Wilson." A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION: In the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Wilson personally led the delegation of American negotiators, and, while the conference included many nations, it was dominated by the "Big Four": David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France and Wilson. Wilson and Clemenceau's diplomatic aims and methods were in strong contrast, with Wilson seeking an agreement which would incorporate his "Fourteen Points" to ensure world peace, while the French Premier was intent on disarming Germany, obtaining reparations, and insuring France's future security. In an address in the Chamber of Deputies on 8 March 1918, Clemenceau boldly proclaimed an approach to diplomacy which revealed a realism spawned by four years of bloody war and which greatly differed from that of the American President: "My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war...and I shall continue to wage war until the last quarter of an hour."