Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis

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In 1889, Lefèvre-Pontalis (back, third from left) together with Auguste Pavie implemented the Laos Protectorate ( Protectorat français du Laos ) in the French colony of French Indochina .

Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis (born November 13, 1864 , † 1938 ) was a French diplomat .

Life

Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis was the son of Caroline West and Amédée Lefèvre-Pontalis , and cousin of Marie Augustin Jean Doulcet . He studied law and at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales . At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Quai d'Orsay , he initially served in the economic department.

In 1894 he was deputy commissioner in Laos under Auguste Pavie . From 1894 to 1895 he was a member of a border commission for the Red River and Mekong region in Vietnam under French colonial rule , and he also worked for a Franco-British border commission.

In 1896 he was legation secretary in Cairo and in 1899 legation secretary in Luxembourg and St. Petersburg . Based on the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , the French colonial administration in Vietnam organized the exhibition L'Exposition d'Hanoï from November 1902 to January 1903, to which Lefevre-Pontalis was also sent. In 1905 he was secretary of the legation in Athens . In 1908 he was a member of the international financial control to which the Greek King George I had had to submit since 1893. In 1909 he was secretary of the embassy in Washington and from 1912 to 1915 Ministre plénipotentiaire in Bangkok . In 1918 he headed the Consulate General in Cairo. From February to August 1920 he was High Commissioner and then until October 1924 Ministre plénipotentiaire in Vienna . Pontalis' wife had the last name Déjardin-Verkinder. Pontalis was the commander of the Legion of Honor .

Publications

  • Voyages dans le haut Laos et sur les frontieres de Chine et de Birmanie . In: Mission Pavie: Indo-Chine, 1879-1895: Géographie et voyages , vol. 5. E. Leroux, Paris, 1902.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Qui êtes-vous? : Annuaire des contemporains; notices biographiques: Vol. 3, p. 463
predecessor Office successor
Auguste Pavie French ambassador to Thailand
1912–1915 		Roger Maugras
Henri Allizé French High Commissioner in Vienna
February – August 1920
French Ministre plénipotentiaire in Stockholm
1920–1924 		Maurice Delarüe Caron de Beaumarchais
personal data
SURNAME Lefèvre-Pontalis, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1864
DATE OF DEATH 1938