Jean Adolphe Bourdeillette

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Jean Adolphe Bourdeillette (born October 24, 1901 in Dax , Aquitaine , † August 28, 1981 in Brantôme en Périgord ) was a French diplomat , most recently ambassador to Israel .

Life

Jean Bourdeillette studied philosophy, law and political science at the University of Paris and entered the diplomatic service . He married Antoinette Bourdeillette in 1926. In November 1925 he became auxiliary consul and in December 1925 Résident Génerale in Tunis . He worked for an ambassadors conference in 1928. In 1930 he became third-class embassy secretary in Vienna . In 1931 he worked at the headquarters on Quai d'Orsay . He was a member of the French delegation to the Conference of the Stresa Front . From 1933 to 1937 he was consul in Nuremberg . From 1938 to 1939 he was consul in Frankfurt am Main . From 1939 to 1942 he was consul general in Genoa . On December 8, 1942, his furniture there was destroyed by bombs. In 1943 he was relieved of his duties as head of department by the puppet government of Pierre Laval at Sigmaringen Castle .

From 1944 to 1949 he was first class secretary of the embassy and at times business porter at the Holy See . In a letter dated January 30, 1945, he reported to Georges Bidault about Harry Hopkins' visit to Pius XII. According to Bourdeillette, Hopkins warned urgently of the consequences of the expected complete victory of the Soviet Union for the future of Poland and Hungary for the equilibrium in Europe. From April 21, 1949 to March 3, 1952 Bourdeillette was ambassador to Caracas . From December 19, 1951 to September 9, 1958, he was ambassador to Copenhagen . From October 10, 1959 to September 11, 1965, he was ambassador to Tel Aviv .

Works

  • Simulacres: poèmes 1934–1945, 1945, 111 pp.
  • Les étoiles dans la main, 1954, 110 pp.
  • Reliques des songes, 1958, 125 pp.
  • La pierre et l'anémone, (choix de poèmes) 1964, 102 pp.
  • Season des ombres, 1965, 104 pp
  • Pour Israel, 1968, 256 pp.
  • Le Bouquet noir, 1970, 124 pp.
  • Le Soleil ni la mort, 1975, 111 pp
  • Comme à travers un rêve ...: (1974–1975), 1976, 109 pp.
predecessor Office successor
Léon Bérard French ambassador to the Holy See in
1945 		Jacques Maritain
Guillaume Georges-Picot French ambassador to Venezuela
1949–1952 		Pierre Arnal
Guy de Girard de Charbonnière French ambassador to Denmark
1951–1958 		Christian Fouchet
Pierre-Eugène Gilbert French ambassador to Israel
1959–1965 		Bertrand Edmond Rochereau de La Sablière

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coret Genealogy: dying Jean Adolphe Alberic Bourdeillette on 28 August 1981 in Brantôme en Périgord (France). Accessed August 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ PDF at untreaty.un.org
  3. ↑ Kelly's Directories, The International year book and statesmen's who's who , Brill Academic Publishers, 1953, p. 49
  4. ↑ Konrad Adenauer Foundation , PDF
personal data
SURNAME Bourdeillette, Jean Adolphe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourdeillette, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dax , Aquitaine
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1981
Place of death Brantôme en Périgord