Jules Cambon

Jules-Martin Cambon (born April 5, 1845 in Paris , † September 19, 1935 in Vevey , Switzerland) was a French diplomat, most recently with the rank of ambassador .

Live and act

Cambon, the younger brother of diplomat Paul Cambon , began his career in 1866 as a lawyer. After participating in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 , he entered civil service in 1871. There he initially acted as prefect of the northern departments (1882) and Rhône (1887-1891) before he was appointed governor general of the French colony of Algeria in 1891 .

In 1897 Cambon was sent to Washington as the French ambassador , where in 1898, in the late phase of the Spanish-American War , he mediated at the request of the Spanish government by initiating the preliminary negotiations that led to the peace negotiations between the two states. He took part in the actual negotiations as an advisory trainee.

In 1902 Cambon became ambassador to Madrid, where he enjoyed great prestige thanks to his previous mediating work and was considered to be the real originator of the Cartagena Agreement (1907) . He was then ambassador in Berlin from 1907 until the outbreak of war in 1914 , during which time he was a guest in the Salon of the Princess von Radziwill , which took place in the Palais Radziwill . He then returned to France, where he was Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry during the war . During the negotiations for the Versailles Treaty , Cambon was chairman of a commission named after him for the establishment of Polish post-war borders.

For his achievements, Cambon was awarded the great cross of the Legion of Honor and in 1918 accepted into the Académie française .

Works

Exposé de la situation générale de l'Algérie , 2 volumes, 1895–1897.
Le Général de l'Algérie , 1891–1897 and 1918.
Le Diplomate , 1926.

Web links

Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Newspaper article about Jules Cambon in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Literature by and about Jules Cambon in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Templin : The fight for Poland . Ed .: Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation . Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-78757-6 , pp. 92 ( google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Cambon, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cambon, Jules-Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	September 19, 1935
Place of death	Vevey , Switzerland

[1] Wolfgang Templin : The fight for Poland . Ed .: Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation . Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-78757-6 , pp. 92 ( google.de ).