Francis Hure

Francis Huré (born October 5, 1916 in Abbeville ) was a French diplomat .

Life

Francis Huré studied art and law at the École libre des sciences politiques . At the beginning of the Second World War he was a non-commissioned officer in French Morocco . After the Armistice of Compiègne (1940) he was demobilized and hired as a laborer in the Foreign Office in the Vichy regime . He soon came into opposition to this, joined the Resistance and emigrated via Spain and Algiers to Moscow , where from 1944 he was employed in the representation of the French Committee for National Liberation , from which the foreign representation of the Provisional Government under Charles de Gaulle has been. On his return to Paris he became general secretary on the Quai d'Orsay . In 1947 he was in Japan, where Zinovi Pechkoff led the French liaison mission to the Allied occupation forces . He was on diplomatic missions in Seoul and Hong Kong . He followed as representative of Charles de Gaulle Chiang Kai-shek , from Nanjing , Beijing , Shanghai to Taipei . In 1950 he became counselor at the UN headquarters where he was engaged in the UN Trustee Council . From 1954 until the Suez Crisis he was first class counselor in London .

From 22 January 1959 to 29 June 1959, he was appointed charge d'affaires in Conakry in Guinea on the proposal of the French Union join had Ahmed Sékou Touré declared in 1958 that his people would prefer poverty in freedom a wealth in slavery before, and in 1965 the diplomatic Relations with France ended. From June 1, 1965 to April 22, 1968 he was ambassador to Yaoundé .

From October 9, 1968 to July 25, 1973 he was ambassador to Tel Aviv . In 1970, the French government announced it would deliver Dassault Mirage III to the Libyan armed forces . On April 22, 1973, Easter Sunday, Abba Eban Huré ordered to the Foreign Ministry and told him that 18 of the 70 Dassault Mirage IIIs had the Egyptian Air Force stationed near Almaza, east of Cairo . From July 25, 1973 to 1980 he was ambassador to Brussels .

Francis Huré was married to the French writer and survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp , Jacqueline Saveria (née Felici).

Publications

• Portraits de Pechkoff, Editions de Fallois 2006, ISBN 978-2877066020

predecessor	Office	successor
	French ambassador to Guinea 1959	Pierre Siraud
Jean-Pierre Bénard	French ambassador to Cameroon 1965–1968	Philippe Rebeyrol
Bertrand Edmond Rochereau de La Sablière	French ambassador to Israel 1968–1973	Jean Lucien Emile Herly
Baron Gontran Begougne de Juniac	French ambassador to Belgium 1973–1980	Roger Vaurs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Time , May 07, 1973, [1]
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