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PIERRE PAUL CAMBON (1843– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 85 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:PAUL See also:CAMBON (1843– )  , See also:French diplomatist, was See also:born on the 20th of See also:January 1843 . He was called to the Parisian See also:bar, and became private secretary to Jules See also:Ferry in the prefecture of the See also:Seine . After ten years of administrative See also:work in See also:France as secretary of prefecture, and then as See also:prefect successively of the departments of See also:Aube (1872), See also:Doubs (1876), See also:Nord (1877-1882), he exchanged into the See also:diplomatic service, being nominated French See also:minister plenipotentiary at See also:Tunis . In 1886 he became French See also:ambassador to See also:Madrid; was transferred to See also:Constantinople in 1890, and in 1898 to See also:London . He was decor-/sled with the See also:grand See also:cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and became a member of the French See also:Academy of Sciences . His See also:brother, JULES See also:MARTIN See also:CAMBON (1845— ), was called to the bar in 1866, served in the Franco-Prussian See also:War andentered the See also:civil service in 1871 . He was prefect of the See also:department of Nord (1882) and of the See also:Rhone (1887–189,), and in 1891 became See also:governor-See also:general of See also:Algeria (see See also:Guyot, L'ceuvre de M . Jules Cambon, See also:Paris, 1897), where he had served in a See also:minor position in 1874 . He was nominated French ambassador at See also:Washington in 1897, and in that capacity negotiated the preliminaries of See also:peace on behalf of the See also:Spanish See also:government after the war with the See also:United States . He was transferred in 1902 to Madrid, and in 1907 to See also:Berlin .

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