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to present his letters of accreditation to King Victor Emmanuel III as the ambassador of the French republic to the Kingdom of Italy. Most notably, François-Poncet addressed King Victor Emmanuel III as both King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia, thereby recognising the Italian conquest of Ethiopia.
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as "the best informed ambassador in Berlin", but the French government generally did not heed the ambassador's many warnings about Hitler's intentions. François-Poncet was inadvertently involved in the purge of the
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as evidence that the men had been conspiring with the French to overthrow the German government. As the evidence was manufactured, François-Poncet himself was never named or charged with anything.
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and later served with the International Economic Mission in the United States and in other diplomatic roles under a series of French leaders.
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was signed in 1938, François-Poncet left his post as French ambassador to Germany after a farewell visit to Hitler at the
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when, in Hitler's justification for the killings, he referred to a dinner that François-Poncet had attended with
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Salerno, Reynolds M. (February 1997). "The French Navy and the Appeasement of Italy, 1937-9".
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whose post as ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness first-hand the rise to power of
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Between 1917 and 1919, he was assigned to the press office of the French embassy in
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On 23 January 1941, François-Poncet was made a member of the National Council of
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Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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He served in that position until 1940 when Italy declared war on France.
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The Fateful Years: Memoirs of a French Ambassador in Berlin, 1931–1938
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Members of the 14th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
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Members of the 13th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
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Histoire de l'administration de l'enseignement en France, 1789–1981
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Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets
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The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics 1918–1945
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Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal-Duke of Villars
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Article on François-Poncet by the Académie française
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French High Commissioner
West Germany
Ambassador
Robert Coulondre
Louis Joxe
French Ambassador
Germany
Provins
Seine-et-Marne
France
Jean François-Poncet
Alma mater
Sciences Po
politician
diplomat
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
Nazi regime
World War II
Court of Appeals in Paris
German studies
Paris Institute of Political Studies
German Empire
World War I
Bern
Switzerland
Émile Mireaux
League of Nations
Weimar Germany

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