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Cambon, Jules (1845-1935) |
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A French colonial governor and diplomat. Younger brother of Paul Cambon, Jules was governor-general of Algeria (1891-97), and then ambassador at three important embassies. He was then secretary-general of the Quaid\'Orsay, a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and chairman of the extremely important standing Ambassadors’ Conference created in January 1920 to arrange for the execution of certain aspects of the peace treaties. Harold Nicolson described him as ‘witty, wise, conciliatory, high-minded, disillusioned. Perhaps the most intelligent of all French pre-war diplomatists’. In 1926 he published a short book on diplomacy called Le diplomate, which was highly praised by practitioners of the old diplomacy. It appeared in an English translation in 1931 under the title, The Diplomatist. |
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