Abel Chevalley
Abel Chevalley (* 1868 , † 1933 ) was a French diplomat .
Life
From 1905 to 1910 he served as Consul General in Pretoria , South Africa . In 1920 he was the French representative in the inter-allied voting commission subordinate to the League of Nations ( French Commission Interalliée d'Administration et de Plébiscite d'Allenstein ) for the voting area of Allenstein in the Prussian province of East Prussia . He was then High Commissioner in Georgia from 1920 to 1921 .
Chevalley and his wife Marguerite (1880-1979), born Sabatier and daughter of the French Reformed theologian Louis Auguste Sabatier , were authors of the Concise Oxford French Dictionary .
Claude Chevalley , a mathematician, was the only son of Abel and Marguerite Chevalley.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Sarah Wambaugh : Plebiscities Since the World War: With a Collection of Official Documents , Volume 1, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1933, p. 113. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
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| SURNAME | Chevalley, Abel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1868 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1933 |