Charles Lucet
Ernest Charles Lucet ( born April 16, 1910 in Paris, † 25 March 1990) was a French ambassador.
Life
His father was a doctor. His younger brother, Jean Maurice Lucet was oil business; his company had taken over the management of the autonomous Port de Bordeaux. Ernest Charles Lucet studied law at the École libre des sciences politiques. He entered the diplomatic service in the 1930s. In 1935, he was in the North America division of the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d' Orsay, and was sent to the Secretary at the Embassy in Washington, where he was promoted to Counsellor. In November 1942, he was dismissed by the Vichy regime, he did not follow this dismissal and joined the exiled government of de Gaulle at, for which he was accredited to February 1943 in Washington. From 1943 he was employed for de Gaulle in the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the government in exile in Algiers and was until 1945 Ambassador of the French government in exile in Ankara.
From 1945 to 1946 he was Ambassador of the French Provisional Government in Beirut at the General Delegate to the League of Nations Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, Paul Emile Beynet, respectively from 1946 at Béchara el- Khoury in Lebanon. From 1947 to 1950 he was Ambassador of the Fourth Republic in Faruq in Egypt. From 1950 to 1953 he was employed at the French Foreign Ministry.
From 1953 to 1955 he sat on the seat of France in the UN Security Council. From 1955 to 1959 he was Counsellor at the French Embassy in Washington under Maurice Couve de Murville and Hervé Alphand with the Government of Dwight D. Eisenhower. From 1959 to 1965 he headed the French Foreign Ministry, the Department of Political Affairs. From 1965 to 1972 he was Ambassador of the Government of France Georges Pompidou with the governments Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon.
From 1972 to 1974 he was Ambassador of the Government of France Georges Pompidou with Giovanni Leone in Rome. He then worked in the private sector.