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Show NOTED FRENCHMAN MM DEATH FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO LONDON LON-DON AT OUTBREAK OF WAR DIES IN PARIS Paul Cambon Saw Strenuous Times As French Tussled With Hostilities, Hostil-ities, While Stationed in England Paris. Pierre Paul Cambon, former French ambassador to London Lon-don died at iiis home here Friday night. Pierre Paul Cambon, eminent French statesman and diplomat, won international fame in the early days-of days-of the present century for his efforts in behalf or the Anglo-French agreement agree-ment of April S, 1904, when the powerful pow-erful and far-reaching entente cor-diale cor-diale was born. Paul Cambon was one of three brothers, all of whom were conspicuous conspicu-ous in French diplomatic affairs at the same time. Jules Cambon, later the best known of the three, wa ambassador to Washington; Paul was accredited to London, and the third brother was in a similar post at Constantinople. M. Paul Cambon was born January '20, 1843. He was called to the Parisian Pari-sian bar some twenty years later, and work in various government departments depart-ments was transferred to the diplomatic diplo-matic sen-ice and appointed minister minis-ter plenipotentiary at Tunis. In 1SS0 he became French ambassador to Madrid, Ma-drid, and two years later went to Constantinople in the same capacity. In 1S0S 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 readied a critical stage over the Fashoda Incident In-cident in Egypt. King Edward VII, working carefully care-fully and secretly, had launched hi? program to readjust Europe's equilibrium, equil-ibrium, and to bring England, France and Russia together as a means of offsetting the powerful Triple Alliance, Alli-ance, between Germany, Austria and Italy. The lat Theophile Delcasse represented France in the treaty negotiation?, ne-gotiation?, while the British interests were looked after by Lord Lans downe. Taul Canidon acted as intermediary intermed-iary rii-ring the negotiations, and I! was largely through him that the many difficulties were ironed out. The announcement that an agreement had been reached came suddenly atv in FiOJ, and astonished the entire world. M. Cambon came prominently to the front in 101-1, and played an important im-portant part in frustrating the efforts ef-forts of Germany to separate France and Great Britian on the eve of the ,'reat struggle |