Rue Tardieu… André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu (22 September 1876 – 15 September 1945) was Prime Minister of France on 3 occasions between 1929 and 1932.

He was chief political editor of the Temps and elected (1914) as a deputy, became minister of the liberated regions of Alsace and Lorraine after World War I in 1919. As French plenipotentiary at the Paris Peace Conference he played an important part in negotiations leading to the Treaty of Versailles. A nationalist, Tardieu led French demands and campaigned for security from German expansionism.

On German aggression in the Truth about the Treaty, 1921, he wrote:

“Never was an international crime more flagrant than Germany’s attack on France of August 2, 1914; never one more deliberately planned. I can still see Baron von Schoen, the Kaiser’s Ambassador, standing on the steps of the Quai d’Orsay as with feigned regret he takes leave of M. de Margerie, now French Ambassador at Brussels but then Political Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The German Representative bows deprecatingly. He seems to say, as his Master said a few weeks later, “I did not will all this.” Yet at that very moment and without any declaration of war, German troops had already (thirty-four hours previously) crossed our frontier and invaded our soil. This very invasion had been planned for half a century.”