Aristide Briand was a French statesman, who became the Prime Minister of French Republic eleven times and held the post of the Foreign Minister for the longest period. Though he started his political career as a member of French Socialist Party, he rose above the party line to do what he thought was the best. In his very first term as a Deputy, he worked to separate the church from the state and went to the extent of joining a bourgeois government to complete his task; thus losing the membership of the Socialist Party. However, unlike many others, he did not form any political party, but took up various posts under different prime ministers. In later years, his main objective was to eliminate war from international arena. It is an irony that he had to lead the nation through World War I. After the war he took initiative to usher in permanent peace and received Nobel Peace Prize for that. All through his career was renowned for his persuasiveness and personal diplomacy. His habit of attacking the core of the problem rather than trying to cure the symptoms was appreciated by the international leaders of that period.