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CAMBON, PIERRE PAUL (1843– )

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CAMBON, See also:
PIERRE
PIERRE See also:
PAUL
PAUL (PAULUS)
PAUL (1843– ) , See also:

French diplomatist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 20th of See also:

JANUARY

January 1843. He was called to the Parisian See also:

bar, and became private secretary to Jules See also:

Ferry in the prefecture of the See also:

Seine. After ten years of administrative See also:

WORK

work in See also:

France as secretary of prefecture, and then as See also:

PREFECT (prefet)

prefect successively of the departments of See also:

AUBE

Aube (1872), See also:

DOUBS

Doubs (1876), See also:

NORD

Nord (1877-1882), he exchanged into the See also:

DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic service, being nominated French See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister plenipotentiary at See also:

TUNIS

Tunis. In 1886 he became French See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador to See also:

MADRID

Madrid; was transferred to See also:

Constantinople in 1890, and in 1898 to See also:

LONDON

London. He was decor-/sled with the See also:

GRAND

grand See also:

CROSS

cross of the See also:

LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour, and became a member of the French See also:

Academy of Sciences. His See also:

BROTHER

brother, JULES See also:

MARTIN CAMBON (1845— ), was called to the bar in 1866, served in the Franco-Prussian See also:

War andentered the See also:

CIVIL

civil service in 1871. He was prefect of the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Nord (1882) and of the See also:

Rhone (1887–189,), and in 1891 became See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor-See also:

general of See also:

Algeria (see See also:

Guyot, L'ceuvre de M. Jules Cambon, See also:

Paris, 1897), where he had served in a See also:

minor position in 1874. He was nominated French ambassador at See also:

Washington in 1897, and in that capacity negotiated the preliminaries of See also:

peace on behalf of the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish See also:

government after the war with the See also:

UNITED

United States. He was transferred in 1902 to Madrid, and in 1907 to See also:

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