Jacques Camille Paris

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Jacques Camille Paris (born November 22, 1902 , † July 17, 1953 in Talence ) was a French diplomat who was the first General Secretary of the Council of Europe from 1949 until his death .

Life

After attending school, Paris completed a law degree at the École polytechnique and then joined the foreign service . In 1928 he found his first employment as an attaché at the embassy in China and then in 1931 he became the embassy secretary at the embassy in the USA before he became embassy secretary at the embassy in Switzerland in 1934 .

After serving as legation secretary at the legation to the Holy See between 1938 and 1941 , he was first head of the department for North America and Asia in the National Commissariat in the United Kingdom in 1941 and then a representative of the French National Committee in the government of Belgium until he was appointed to the Vichy in 1942 . French citizenship was revoked by the regime .

He then acted as a representative of the French National Committee in Luxembourg from 1943 to 1944 and was only then Counselor to the delegation of the Forces françaises libres in Great Britain and, after the liberation of France from the German occupying power, from 1945 to 1947 he was an authorized minister at the embassy in the United Kingdom . On his return to France he became head of the Department for Europe in the Foreign Office in September 1947 , where Romain Gary was one of his staff.

After the founding of the Council of Europe on May 9, 1949, Paris, who was married to a daughter of Paul Claudel , became the first Secretary General of the Council of Europe on August 11, 1949. He held this office until his death; He was succeeded by Léon Marchal . Paris died on July 17, 1953 in a traffic accident in Talence .

Publications

  • Ou en est le Conseil de l'Europe ?: allocution prononcee devant la presse Anglo-Americaine a Paris le 16 fevrier 1951 , 1951
  • Les institutions européennes au printemps de 1952 , 1952
  • Le Conseil de l'Europe et ses réalisations: Le pacte Atlantique et l'Europe , co-author André Gros , 1952
  • Universalisme et régionalisme européen du droit international: Suivi de La Formule des autorités spécialisées est-elle applicable à toute l'Europe , co-authors Paul Guggenheim , Paul Reuter and René de Lacharrière, 1953

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralph Schoolcraft: Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow , p. 22, ISBN 0-81223-646-7 , 2002
  2. ^ Council of Europe (rulers.org)
personal data
SURNAME Paris, Jacques Camille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat and first Secretary General of the Council of Europe
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1902
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1953
Place of death Talence