Charles Jonnart

Charles Célestin Auguste Jonnart (* December 27 1857 in Fléchin, Pas- de -Calais, † September 30, 1927 in Paris) was a French politician and diplomat in the period of the Third Republic.

Jonnart studied law in Paris and at the École des sciences politiques. Léon Gambetta called him in 1881 in the office of the Governor-General of Algeria, Louis Tirman. 1884 Jonnart returned back to France and became Director of Algerian Affairs in the Interior Ministry. In 1886 he became the General Council of Pas -de- Calais for the Canton Fauquembergues. In the elections 1889 the Chamber of Deputies, he won a seat for the Republicans in Pas -de -Calais, which he was to retain until 1914. Jean Casimir - Périer appointed him in December 1893 Minister of Public Works, on 30 May 1894, he left the government, however, again.

After Jonnart had recovered from a serious car accident, he was appointed Pierre Waldeck- Rousseau in October 1900 to the Governor-General of Algeria. He retained the post held with a two -year hiatus until 1911. On January 22, 1913 appointed him as Foreign Minister Aristide Briand; However, he was able to exercise only for a short time until the overthrow of the government on March 23, 1913 by the Senate this post.

1914 Jonnart was included in the French Senate, where he chaired the Committee on Foreign Affairs. During the First World War Jonnart was sent as an envoy of the Entente Powers with military powers to Greece to promote the abdication of Constantine. Georges Clemenceau sent him in 1918 again as Governor General to Algeria to excavate fresh troops. In 1919 he finally left Algeria and returned to Europe. As the early 1920s, the ratio of the Third Republic began to relax to the Catholic Church, Jonnart was from 1921 to 1923 since the severing of diplomatic relations in 1904, the first French ambassador to the Holy See.

Since 1918 member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, he was accepted into the Académie Française on April 19, 1923 after a stormy vote. The Action Française stolen after the election the ballot and published a list of the members who voted for Jonnart. Since then, the ballots are burned immediately after the election.