| Show NOTED MR 01 death FRENCH ambassador TO LONDON AT OUTBREAK OF WAR DIES IN PARIS paul cambon saw strenuous times As french tussled with hostilities while stationed in england paris pierre paul Carn cambon bon former french amb ambassador assado r t to 0 lo 10 london n died at his home here friday lug lit pierre paul cambon crai eminent nent french statesman and diplomat won international fame in the early days of the present century cent ury for his efforts la in behalf or the anglo french agreement of april 8 1904 when the powerful and far reaching entente cordiale was born bom paul cambon was one of three brothers all of whom were conspicuous ous in french diplomatic affairs at the he same time jules cambon later the best known of the three was wal ambassador to washington paul was accredited to london and the third brother was in a similar post at 1 constantinople M 11 paul cambon was born january 20 1843 lie ile was called to the parisian bar some twenty years later and work in various government departments was transferred to the diplomatic service and appointed minister min it plenipotentiary at tunis in 1880 he became french ambassador to madrid and two years later went to constantinople in the same capacity in 1898 he presented his credentials as ambassador to the court of st james he was still in london when six years later the relations between england and france had reached a critical stage over the fashoda incident in egypt king edward VII working carefully and secretly had launched hla his program to readjust Eu ropes equilibrium and to bring england france and russia together as a means of offsetting the powerful triple alliance between germany austria and italy the lat theophile Del casse represented france in the treaty negotiations while the british interests were looked after by lord lana downe paul camdon acted as intermediary during the negotiations and it was largely through him that the many difficulties were ironed out the announcement that an agreement had been reached came suddenly late in 1904 and astonished the entire world M cambon came prominently to the front in 1914 and played an im important part in iii frustrating the efforts of germany to separate france and great britian on the eve of the great struggle he resigned his post in november 1920 |
