Camille Barrère

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Camille Barrère

Camille Barrère (born October 23, 1851 in La Charité-sur-Loire , † October 7, 1940 in Paris ) was a French diplomat .

Life

Camille Barrère was the son of a teacher who was persecuted after the coup d'état of December 2, 1851 and went into exile with his family in the United Kingdom . Camille grew up in England. In 1870 he returned to France, but at the time of the Paris Commune he was forced to return to the United Kingdom.

In London he met the parliamentarian Martin Nadaud , as his secretary he worked in the prefecture of Guéret . He then worked as a journalist and in 1883 joined the French foreign service, which was dominated by aristocrats . His knowledge of British ways of thinking was valued in a foreign policy based on the Entente cordiale .

From 1883 to 1885 he was Consul General in Cairo . From 1885 to 1888 he was Ministre plénipotentiaire in Stockholm . He was briefed on his mission in Stockholm on November 17, 1885, where he arrived on January 20, 1886. His letter of accreditation, dated November 20, 1885, was presented to Oskar II of Sweden on January 23, 1886 , who was also King of Norway until 1905. From 1889 to 1896 he was ambassador in Munich . Barrère was friends with Annette Kolb and went to Händelstrasse since 1888. 1 on and off. From 1894 to 1896 he was envoy in Bern . From 1897 to 1924 he was ambassador to Rome . One of the Franco-Italian conflicts during his tenure was that both governments regarded Cyrene and Tunisia as their colonies when the Ottoman Empire collapsed . Camille Barrère supported a Franco-Italian trade agreement that was signed with the government of Antonio Starabba di Rudinì in 1897 and sought diplomatic solutions to the colonial ambitions of the two governments. In March 1902, an understanding was reached on Tripoli and Morocco , which contributed to the fact that the Triple Alliance was not extended. He worked in favor of the Italian neutrality in 1914 and 1915 on the accession of Italy to the Triple Entente in the First World War . Under the auspices of the Académie de France à Rome under Albert Besnard , he conducted an interview with Désiré-Joseph Mercier in the Villa Medici (Rome) in 1916 .

Aristide Briand and Camille Barrère after a conference of the Triple Entente from January 6-8, 1917 in Rome.

In July 1924 he was recalled from Rome by Foreign Minister Édouard Herriot . In 1926 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques .

From 1929 to 1936 he was a member of the management of the Société de construction des Batignolles (SCB, an internationally active French railway construction company). He left the SCB in 1936 for health reasons.

In his correspondence with Violet Milner, Viscountess Milner, stepdaughter of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , from 1931 to 1935, he expressed his anger at the politicians' lack of imagination, especially in the face of threats of an Anschluss, and protested against the German-British naval agreement , which, without prior consultation with the government of Pierre-Étienne Flandin by John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon and Joachim von Ribbentrop, subverted the arms restrictions of the Peace Treaty of Versailles . He wrote: The lack of friends is better than false friends.

He was an accomplished violinist and owner of several historical violins: an Amati , a Guarneri del Gesù and one by Antonio Stradivari in 1727; Janine Jansen plays his violin today . Albert Besnard portrayed him in 1906. He was survived as a Communard by Adrien Lejeune (born June 3, 1847, † January 9, 1942 in Novosibirsk ) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annette Kolb
  2. ↑ Les Italiens en Tunisie
  3. ↑ Thomas M. Iiams, Dreyfus, diplomat ists and the Dual Alliance in 1962, 157 S., S. 118
  4. ↑ Thomas Mann , René Schickele , Hans Wysling , Jahre des Unmuts , 1992 - 415 p., P. 220
predecessor Office successor
Charles Gachet French Plenipotentiary Minister in Stockholm from
1885 to 1886 		Charles-Théodore-Gonzalve de Diesbach de Belleroche
Jean-Babtiste Felix Mariani French charge d'affaires in Munich from
1888 to 1896 		Jules Henrys, Comte d'Aubigny
Emmanuel Arago French envoy in Bern
1894 to 1896 		Paul Morand
Albert Billot French ambassador to Rome
1897 to 1924 		René Besnard
personal data
SURNAME Barrère, Camille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH La Charité-sur-Loire
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1940
Place of death Paris