Christian Carra de Vaux Saint Cyr

Christian Carra de Vaux Saint Cyr (* 1888 ; † 1954 ) was a French diplomat .

Life

In 1919 he married Marie Charlotte Baudon de Mony (* 1894), their daughters were Christiane and Alyette. In 1919 he joined the Foreign Service and was an attaché in Bern , Madrid and Berlin . In 1931 he headed the "Asia Department" at the Quai d'Orsay (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). In 1933 he was deputy head of the "South America Department". From 1934 to 1938 he was Consul General in Munich . After the Munich Agreement he was sent to Havana in 1938 as chargé d' affaires. In April 1939 he was Chargé d'affaires in Berlin and from September 1939 to February 1940 delegate for press censorship. Towards the end of the winter war between the Soviet Union and Finland , he became chargé d'affaires in Oslo on March 7, 1940 . After the armistice of Compiègne , which stood at the end of the western campaign , he became chargé d'affaires in Copenhagen .

On December 5, 1942, he was released from the service of the Vichy regime . He was then employed by the French Committee for National Liberation in Algiers . From 1945 to 1951 he was ambassador to Athens .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brill Academic Publishers: The International year book and statesmen's who's who . Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1953, p. 68 ( [1] [accessed September 8, 2012]).

predecessor	Office	successor
Aimé Leroy	French General Consul in Munich 1934 to 1938	Louis Jousset
	French ambassador to Havana in 1938	Philippe Grousset
Robert Coulondre	French ambassador in Berlin April 1939	Robert Coulondre
Gaston Albert Joseph Marie Moisson de Vaux Saint Cyr	French ambassador in Oslo February 1940	Jacques-Émile Paris
Gaston Albert Joseph Marie Moisson de Vaux Saint Cyr	French Chargé d'affaires in Copenhagen June 22, 1940 to December 5, 1942	Jean Baelen
Gaston Maugras	French ambassador to Athens from 1945 to 1951	Jean Baelen