Hervé Alphand

Hervé Alphand ( born May 31, 1907 in Paris, † January 13, 1994 ) was a French diplomat.

Life

Alphand was born into a French diplomat family and was the son of Charles Hervé Alphand, a diplomat who worked in Moscow and Bern. Hervé Alpgand studied at the École libre des sciences politiques and the University of Paris. Already at age 20, he received his law degree and was 22 years of recent financial inspector of France.

In 1936 he was financial attaché at the embassy in Moscow. After the occupation of France, he went to Washington, DC, where he was from 1940 to 1941 financial advisor of the Embassy of the unoccupied part of France. From 1941 to 1944 he was Finance Director in London and Algiers. From 1944 to 1949 he joined the French Foreign Ministry, where he was general manager for technical, economic and financial issues. At the Paris Peace Conference of 1946, he played an important role, as in the subsequent action taken by the Allies, among other things, he wrote a report on the Marshall Plan, which went to 16 countries.

From 1959 to 1954 he represented in NATO, where he held the rank of Ambassador, the interests of France. From 1955 to 1956 he worked in the UN Security Council. He then spent nine years ambassador in Washington, DC., Where he played an important mediating role in the settlement of the Suez crisis. From 1965 to 1972 he was Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry. Until his retirement he was eventually served as foreign policy advisor for the Middle and the Far East.

From 1930 to 1957 he was married to the French singer Claude Reynaud. In 1977 he published under the title L' étonnement d' être, journal from 1939 to 1973 his memoirs.

Works

• L' étonnement d' Être: Journal from 1939 to 1973. Fayard 1977.