Tardieu

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

ANDRÉ PIERRE GA- BRIEL AMÉDÉE, a French administrator and journalist, born in 1876. After graduating from the École Normale, he entered the diplomatic service and was, during 1897, attached to the French embassy in Berlin. For a longer period he was employed in the Foreign Office, then, in 1899, became secretary in the presidency of the Council of Ministers, a position he held for three years. Then followed a period in which he devoted himself to journ journalism rnalism and was editor of the "Revue des Deux Mondes," Mond and foreign made editor of the "Temps." s." In 1908 he a brief visit to the United States, gathering material for a book. During the beginning of the World War he was chief censor, a position he later abandoned to take his place in the trenches. In 1917 he came to the United States as head of the French mission. He was ANDRÉ PIERRE G. TARDIEU the youngest delegate to the Peace Conference, in 1918, and was a member of the Supreme Council. Among his various works is "The Mystery of Agadir." species of Vicia, a genus of leguminous opens up. plants, known also by the name of vetch. vancing and kneeling to fire. The appearing and ties of tares or vetches, but that which gets are worked from a pit position. There are numerous species and varieis found best adapted for agricultural Light lines leading along the ground and purposes is the common tare (V. sativa), of which there are two principal varieties, the summer and winter tare. They afford excellent food for horses and cattle, and hence are extensively cultivated throughout Europe. The tare mentioned in Scripture (Mat. xiii: 36) is supposed ed sed to be the DARNEL (q. v.). V. sativa is found in fields in the United States.