Stephen Pichon

Stephen Jean-Marie Pichon (10 August 1857 – 18 September 1933, Vers-en-Montagne) was a French journalist, diplomat and politician of the Third Republic. The Avenue Stéphen-Pichon in Paris is named after him.

Stephen Pichon
French Minister to China
In office 1897–1900
Resident-General of the Tunisian Protectorate
In office 1901–1906
Preceded by	Georges Benoit.
Succeeded by	Gabriel Alapetite
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 1906–1911
Preceded by	Léon Bourgeois
Succeeded by	Jean Cruppi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 1913–1913
Preceded by	Charles Jonnart
Succeeded by	Gaston Doumergue
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 1917–1920
Preceded by	Louis Barthou
Succeeded by	Alexandre Millerand
Personal details
Born	(1857-08-10)10 August 1857 Arnay-le-Duc, Côte-d'Or, France
Died	18 September 1933(1933-09-18) (aged 76) Vers-en-Montagne, Jura, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Politician

Life

Stephen Jean-Marie Pichon was born on 10 August 1857 in Arnay-le-Duc, Côte-d'Or. He served as French Minister to China (1897–1900), including the period of the Boxer Uprising.[1] Stephen Pichon was appointed Resident-General of the Tunisian Protectorate in 1901, replacing Georges Benoit. In 1906 he was succeeded by Gabriel Alapetite.[2] An associate of Georges Clemenceau, he served several times under Clemenceau and others as Minister of Foreign Affairs, a role in which he proved amiable, but not particularly effective. Stephen Pichon in Paris managed the French agreement with transformation of Czechoslovak National Council to the Provisional Czechoslovak government on 26 September 1918 (when Edward Benes received confirmation of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk from Washington). [3] His most notable service was under Clemenceau during the latter part of the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, but, like most of the other foreign ministers at the conference, Pichon was largely sidelined by the more forceful figure of his head of government.

Stephen Pichon died on 18 September 1933 in Vers-en-Montagne, Jura.

Honours

• Knight of the Legion of Honour 31 October 1895
• Officer of the Legion of Honour 8 April 1898
• Commander of the Legion of Honour 14 August 1900.[4]
• The Avenue Stéphen-Pichon in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, near the Place d'Italie, was named in his honour in 1934.
• A school in Bizerta in Tunisia has his name

Publications

• Articles et chroniques parlementaires dans La Justice
• Écrits de publiciste dans Le Petit Journal
• La diplomatie de l’Église sous la IIIe République, édition O. Doin, 1892, 78 pages
• Rétablissement des relations diplomatiques entre la France et la République dominicaine, 1894
• Traité d'arbitrage pour la délimitation de la Guyane française, 1897
• Les derniers jours de Pékin par Pierre Loti, précédé de La Ville en flammes par Stephen Pichon, et la Défense de la légation de France par Eugène Darcy, 1902
• Dans la Bataille, essai biographique, édition A. Méricant, 1908, 314 pages
• La Guerre et les neutres par René Moulin, préface de Stephen Pichon, 1915
• Manuscrits et correspondances, manuscrits de la bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, et de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (données Gallica).

References

1. OpenLibrary.org. "The Boxer Rebellion (June 1, 2000 edition) | Open Library". Open Library. p. 50-51, 59. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
2. Perkins, Kenneth J. (2016-10-12), Historical Dictionary of Tunisia, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 281–, ISBN 978-1-4422-7318-4, retrieved 2017-09-26
3. PRECLÍK, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (Masaryk and legions), váz. kniha, 219 str., vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina, Czech Republic) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague), 2019, ISBN 978-80-87173-47-3, pp. 87 - 89, 110 - 112, 124 - 128,140 - 148,184 - 190
4. Le dossier de Stephen Pichon est sur la base LEONORE du ministère de la Culture.

External links

• Newspaper clippings about Stephen Pichon in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW