Name Rene de Died March 15, 1961 | Role Diplomat | |
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Rene Doynel de Saint-Quentin (2 December 1883 Garcelles-Secqueville - 15 March 1961 Paris) was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1938 to 1940.
Life
His parents were Jeanne Marie Adelaide Liegeard, and Louis Eugene Jules Doynel Count de Saint-Quentin (October 14, 1850 - 18 April 1928). His maternal grandfather was the poet Stephen Liegeard. He graduated from Ecole libre des sciences politiques, and joined the Foreign Ministry in 1907.
His cousin was the aviator Georges Guynemer. During World War I, he was drafted and wounded twice, he receiving several decorations; he was French military attache in the British army in Egypt.
He was stationed at the General Secretariat of the Berlin Peace Conference, and to the Protectorate of Morocco, he became in 1926 deputy director of African-Levant. He was ambassador to the United States, from March 1938 to September 1940.
In 1940, he made the statement:
If any other country is attacked by Russia ... we will move against the Soviets at once.
He was Ambassador to Brazil, before he returned to Vichy, France, and takes his new post January 27, 1941. Two years later, he resigned from the Vichy government, first joining General Henri Giraud, he then joined Charles de Gaulle in Algiers.
From 1946 to 1961, he was president of the Valentin Hauy charity Association for the Blind.