René Massigli

René Massigli (1929)

René Lucien Daniel Massigli (born March 22, 1888 in Montpellier , † February 3, 1988 ) was a French diplomat who served as Foreign Minister of Free France during the Second World War . He was the French ambassador to Great Britain from 1944 until his replacement in 1954. Massigli is described as one of the most important influencing persons in French diplomacy who determined French foreign policy towards Germany in the interwar period.

As early as 1920, Massigli acted as General Secretary at the Paris Ambassador Conference , an organization of the victorious powers of the First World War . It was founded at the end of the Paris Peace Conference in January 1920 and was instrumental in shaping the post-war order.

Works

Here is an incomplete list of his works:

Notes sur quelques monuments chrétiens de Tunisie: (Pl. I-II) , 1912.
Un manuscrit inédit de l'Evangile du Pseudo-Mathieu , 1913.
Sur quelques maladies de l'état , 1958.

Web links

Commons : René Massigli - Collection of images, videos and audio files

René Massigli in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 31, 2016 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Newspaper article about René Massigli in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ Wladimir P. Koslow, Horst Möller, Sergei W. Mironienko, Alexandr O. Tschubarjan, Hartmut Weber (ed.): SMAD-Handbuch: Die Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland 1945–1949 , p. 31. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
↑ Raphaelle Ulrich: Rene Massigli and Germany, 1919-1938 , in: Robert Boyce (Ed.), French Foreign and Defense Policy, 1918-1940. The Decline and Fall of a Great Power , p. 131f ([... limited preview] at Google Book Search ).
^ Robert WD Boyce: French Foreign and Defense Policy, 1918-1940: The Decline and Fall of a Great Power (= Routledge Studies in Modern European History). Routledge, 1998, ISBN 978-0-203-97922-8 , p. 133.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henri Ponsot	French ambassador in Ankara 1938–1940	Jules Henry
Charles Corbin	French ambassador to London 1944–1954	Jean Chauvel

personal data
SURNAME	Massigli, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Massigli, René Lucien Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH	3rd February 1988

[1] Wladimir P. Koslow, Horst Möller, Sergei W. Mironienko, Alexandr O. Tschubarjan, Hartmut Weber (ed.): SMAD-Handbuch: Die Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland 1945–1949 , p. 31. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

[2] Raphaelle Ulrich: Rene Massigli and Germany, 1919-1938 , in: Robert Boyce (Ed.), French Foreign and Defense Policy, 1918-1940. The Decline and Fall of a Great Power , p. 131f ([... limited preview] at Google Book Search ).

[3] Robert WD Boyce: French Foreign and Defense Policy, 1918-1940: The Decline and Fall of a Great Power (= Routledge Studies in Modern European History). Routledge, 1998, ISBN 978-0-203-97922-8 , p. 133.