Philippe Berthelot
Philippe Joseph Louis Berthelot ( born October 9, 1866 in Sèvres, Hauts -de -Seine, † November 22, 1934 in Paris) was a French diplomat.
Life
The son of a chemist and politician Marcellin Berthelot occurred in 1899 in the diplomatic service and in 1904 after two years of use at the embassy in China in the Foreign Ministry, called the Quai d' Orsay, offset, where he worked in the years to become one of the relevant officials climb. At the outbreak of the First World War, he took part in the follow-up negotiations with the Balkan wars. After his participation in the Versailles Peace Conference, he was appointed in 1919 as Director of political and commercial affairs at the Foreign Ministry in the rank of the State Council and thus held one of the highest positions.
In September 1920 he took over the newly created specially for him Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the rank of ambassador and was in the next few years one of the most influential advisor as well known as Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and Edouard Herriot. Due to its involvement in the bankruptcy of the Banque Industrielle de Chine, whose president was his brother André Berthelot, he was suspended on December 30, 1921 by his office after an arranged by Foreign Minister Raymond Poincaré internal investigation.
On April 2, 1925, he again became Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry and held this post until 1933. In September 1925 he accompanied Briand to the negotiations of Locarno. In the following years he was also responsible for the redesign of French foreign policy in addition to the internal organization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which he described as "close union with the United Kingdom, as well as a rapprochement with Germany ." Throughout his career he had, which combined a significant influence on the diplomatic career of writer Paul Claudel, Saint- John Perse, Jean Giraudoux and Paul Morand him not only the professional collaboration, but also a personal friendship. Successor as Secretary General of the Quai d' Orsay was Saint- John Perse.