Charles Raymond de Saint-Vallier

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Charles Raymond de Saint-Vallier, ~ 1865

Charles Raymond de la Croix de Chevrière, Count of Saint-Vallier (born September 12, 1833 in Coucy-lès-Eppes Castle ( Département Aisne ), † February 4, 1886 Coucy-lès-Eppes Castle (Aisne)) was a French diplomat . He was an envoy from France to the Berlin Congress .

Live and act

De Saint-Vallier began his diplomatic career at the age of 20 as an attaché to the French legation in Lisbon and from 1856 in Munich. From July 1859 he worked under Count von Walewski in the Foreign Office. In 1860 he was appointed Secretary of the Embassy ( secrétaire de l'ambassade ) in Constantinople .

From 1868 until the declaration of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he was envoy at the Württemberg court in Stuttgart. Familiar with the political situation in Germany, he tried to advise the French Foreign Minister, Duke von Gramont, not to go to war.

After the peace signing in 1871, Adolphe Thiers , head of the peace negotiations and from August of that year the first president of the Third Republic , entrusted him with the position of general commissioner in the German occupation army. As such, he worked closely with the Commander-in-Chief of the Occupation Army, General Edwin von Manteuffel , and mediated skillfully between French officials and the German army command .

In December 1877 he was appointed French ambassador in Berlin . In this position he took part in the Berlin Congress in June 1878 as the second authorized representative of France. After four years of service in Berlin, he requested his dismissal in November 1881 and took his seat in the Senate ( Sénateur de l'Aisne from 1876).

literature

  • Henry Daniol: M. Thiers, le Comte de Saint-Vallier, le général de Manteuffel: libération du territoire 1871-1873 , documents inédits, Paris 1898

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SURNAME Saint-Vallier, Charles Raymond de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saint-Vallier, Charles Raymond de la Croix de Chevrière, Count of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat and envoy of France to the Berlin Congress
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Coucy-lès-Eppes castle , Aisne
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1886
Place of death Coucy-lès-Eppes castle , Aisne