Paul Cambon

Pierre Paul Cambon ( born January 20, 1843 in Paris, † May 29, 1924 ) was a French diplomat. He served, among others, in the years 1898 to 1920 as a French ambassador to Britain.

Life

Cambon concluded in 1870 a legal studies in Paris from. In the same year he became head of the personal staff of the later French Prime Minister Jules Ferry. From 1872, he was the Prefect before several French departments.

In 1882 he joined the French diplomatic service. After starring in 1886 as a French resident in Tunis in the establishment of the local French protectorate over Tunisia, he went on as ambassador to Spain ( 1886), the Ottoman Empire (1890 ), and finally from 1898 in the UK. With the latter post he reached the most significant according to the then state of the global policy items, which a French diplomat could reach. The first successes as a French representative in London, he reached with his mediation in the Fashoda crisis of 1898.

Together with Théophile Delcassé and other foreign ministers operation Cambon a decided course of rapprochement with Great Britain, in 1907 at the conclusion of the so-called Entente Powers, and its subsequent expansion to the Triple Entente, including the imperial Russia, culminated.