René Doynel de Saint-Quentin

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Count René Doynel de Saint-Quentin (born December 2, 1883 in Garcelles-Secqueville , † March 15, 1961 in Paris ) was a French ambassador .

Life

His parents were Jeanne Marie Adélaïde Alice Stephen-Liégeard and Louis Jules Eugène Cte ​​Doynel de Saint-Quentin (born October 14, 1850 in Caen, † April 18, 1928 in Paris). During the First World War , Lieutenant Rene Doynel de Saint-Quentin was a French military attaché in the British Army in Egypt .

Poland was divided between the German Empire and the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II . In March 1940, René Doynel de Saint-Quentin - as Albert Lebrun's ambassador to Franklin D. Roosevelt  - threatened Josef Stalin with an attack if he also shared the Kingdom of Romania with the German Empire and the Hungarian dictator Miklós Horthy .

From 1946 to 1961 René Doynel de Saint-Quentin was president of the Association Valentin Haüy .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ POWER POLITICS: Eyes Turn Southeast . In: Time , April 1, 1940
predecessor Office successor
Georges Bonnet French ambassador to Washington
1938–1940 		Adrien Tixier
personal data
SURNAME Saint-Quentin, René Doynel de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Garcelles-Secqueville
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1961
Place of death Paris