PIERRE

See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

PAUL

See also:

• CAMBON, PIERRE JOSEPH (1756-1820)
• PIERRE PAUL CAMBON (1843– )

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