Charles Ernest Lucet

Charles Ernest Lucet (born April 16, 1910 in Paris , † March 25, 1990 ) was a French ambassador .

Life

His father was a doctor. His younger brother, Jean Maurice Lucet, was an oil entrepreneur; his company had taken over the administration of the Port Autonome de Bordeaux . Charles Ernest Lucet studied law at the École libre des sciences politiques . He entered the diplomatic service in the 1930s. In 1935 he was in the North American department of the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay and was posted to the attaché at the embassy in Washington, where he was promoted to counselor. In November 1942 he was recalled by the Vichy regime , he did not obey this recall and joined de Gaulle's government in exile, for which he was accredited in Washington until February 1943. From 1943 he worked for de Gaulle in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the government-in-exile in Algiers and was ambassador of the French government-in-exile in Ankara until 1945.

From 1945 to 1946 he was ambassador of the provisional French government in Beirut to the General Delegate of the League of Nations Mandate for Syria and Lebanon , Paul Emile Beynet, and from 1946 to Béchara el-Khoury in Lebanon . From 1947 to 1950 he was ambassador of the fourth republic to Faruq in Egypt . From 1950 to 1953 he was employed in the French Foreign Ministry.

From 1953 to 1955 he sat in France's seat on the United Nations Security Council. From 1955 to 1959 he was counselor at the French embassy in Washington under Maurice Couve de Murville and Hervé Alphand in the Dwight D. Eisenhower government . From 1959 to 1965 he was Head of Political Affairs at the French Foreign Ministry. From 1965 to 1972 he was Ambassador for the French government of Georges Pompidou to the Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon governments .

From 1972 to 1974 he was ambassador of the French government of Georges Pompidou to Giovanni Leone in Rome. He then worked in the private sector.

Honors

• 1961: Grand Cross of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique

literature

• Charles Lucet , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/1968 of May 27, 1968, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/ministere_817/archives-patrimoine_3512/fonds-collections_5143/entrees-exceptionnelles-collections_11595/archives-orales_18007/liste-entretiens-communicables_57702.html
2. ↑ http://www.bundesarchiv.de/cocoon/barch/0000/z/z1960a/kap1_12/para2_62.html

predecessor	Office	successor
	French ambassador to Egypt 1947 to 1950
	French representative to the United Nations Security Council from 1953 to 1955
	French Counselor to the United States from 1955 to 1959
Hervé Alphand	French ambassador to the United States from 1965 to 1972	Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet
Étienne Burin des Roziers	French ambassador to Italy from 1972 to 1974	François Puaux