Paris Peace Conference (1919)

The "big four" of the Conference (from left): LLoyd George, Orlando, Clemenceau, Wilson (27 May 1919)

Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a meeting of the Allied Powers after World War I.

To provide for the conditions of peace and the reorganization of Europe [at the end of the First World War] the Paris Conference met on January 18th (same day as the proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles in C.E.1871), in which all the victorious states were represented (thirty-two), but whose direction was assumed by the heads of government of the four largest states^[1] (i Big Four, as the Anglo-Saxons used to say), Wilson, LLoyd George, Clemenceau, Orlando. As was inevitable, a welter of contradictory tendencies and appetites was unleashed: nationalisms exasperated against each other and messianic hopes of universal transformation fought and mixed together. (Luigi Salvatorelli)

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