President Francois Hollande Name Bernard Bajolet Profession Diplomat | Nationality French | |
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Education Sciences Po, Ecole nationale d'administration Similar People Erard Corbin de Mangoux, Patrick Calvar, Said Bouteflika, Benoit Puga, Ange Mancini |
French ambassador to hold talks with Sunni clerics
Ambassador visits mosque to discuss hostages.
Bernard Bajolet (born 21 May 1949) is a French diplomat and civil servant. On April 10, 2013, he was appointed as head of the French secret service, the Directorate-General for External Security (Direction générale des services extérieurs). He was the French Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2011 to 2013.
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- French ambassador to hold talks with Sunni clerics
- Ambassador visits mosque to discuss hostages
- Early life
- Diplomatic career
- References

Early life

Bajolet was born in 1949 at Dombasle-sur-Meurthe and went to Lycée Henri Poincaré in Nancy, France. He then studied at Paris' Sciences Po, and graduated from the École nationale d'administration in 1975. That same year he joined the diplomatic service.
Diplomatic career





References
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