Paul Fouchet

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Paul-Jacques Fouchet ( January 25, 1913 - January 30, 2008 ) was a French diplomat . He was ambassador to Niger , the Dominican Republic , Libya , Brazil and Sweden .

Life

Paul Fouchet attended the Lycée Condorcet in Paris . He studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Paris and received his doctorate in law . In 1938 he became an attaché at the French consulate in Addis Ababa , where he worked until 1939. During the Second World War , Fouchet was the third embassy secretary in Ankara from 1939 to 1940 , after which he worked as an attaché at the French consulate in Baghdad from 1941 . He returned to France in August 1942, where he now worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until he resigned after four months. He joined the Resistance from 1942 to 1944 . The Vichy regime released him from diplomatic service in early 1943.

Shortly afterwards, the French government-in-exile brought Paul Fouchet into its foreign affairs secretariat in Algiers . He was then ordered to serve in the Allied military government in Italy and was French Vice Consul in Milan from 1945 to 1946 . From 1946 to 1947 he worked as Deputy Head of Cabinet of the French Foreign Minister. Fouchet was first secretary at the French embassy in New Delhi from 1947 to 1949 . From 1949 to 1950 he advised the French delegation to the United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans (UNSCOB). He then worked from 1951 to 1952 as First Secretary at the French Embassy in Athens . The following year Fouchet served as an auditor at the NATO Defense College . From 1954 he worked as a second counselor in Vienna until he returned to the Foreign Ministry in 1959. There he was first sub-director for technical and cultural affairs, then head of the department for technical cooperation.

Paul Fouchet became French ambassador to Niger in 1962, which had gained independence from France two years earlier. He held this office until 1964. From 1964 to 1966 he was ambassador to the Dominican Republic. This was followed by a position as ambassador to Libya from 1966 to 1969. Fouchet then returned to France, where he again worked at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became Deputy Director General for Cultural, Scientific and Technical Relations. He then worked from 1972 to 1975 as ambassador to Brazil and most recently from 1975 to 1978 as ambassador to Sweden.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul-Jacques Fouchet. Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, accessed October 15, 2016 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ List chronologique des ambassadeurs, envoyés extraordinaires, ministres plénipoteniaires et chargés d'affaires de France à l'étranger depuis 1945. (PDF) In: France Diplomatie. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development , p. 99 , accessed October 15, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Fouchet, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fouchet, Paul-Jacques (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1913
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2008