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JULES PATENOTRE DES NOYERS (1845– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 903 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DES NOYERS (1845– )  , See also:French diplomatist, was See also:born at Baye (See also:Marne) on the loth of See also:April 1845 . Educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure, he taught for some years in the lycee at See also:Algiers before he joined the See also:diplomatic service in 187r . His most important See also:mission was in 1884, when he was sent as French See also:minister to See also:China to regularize the French dominion in See also:Annam . After arranging at See also:Hue with the See also:king of Annam the See also:condition of the French See also:protectorate, he proceeded to See also:Shanghai to See also:settle with China the difficulties which had arisen over the evacuation of See also:Tongking by the See also:Chinese troops . The negotiation failed, and the French See also:admiral resumed hostilities against China in See also:August . Next See also:year Paten6tre signed with Li Hung Chang a treaty of See also:peace at Tien-tsin, by which the French protectorate in Annam and Tongking was recognized, and both parties agreed to remain within their own See also:borders in the future . After serving as minister plenipotentiary in See also:Morocco (1888-1891), M . Paten6tre was sent to See also:Washington, where he was raised to the See also:rank of See also:ambassador in 1893 . He was ambassador at See also:Madrid from 1897 to 1902 . See also:Pierre See also:Loti in Au Maroc has described his See also:diplomacy in Morocco . M . Paten6tre himself published some reminiscences in the Revue See also:des deux mondes .

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