FRENCH DIPLOMAT POLITICIAN SPANISH AMERICA WAR AMBASSADOR SPAIN AUTOGRAPH SIGNED

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JULES PATENOTRE DES NOYERS
(1845 – 1925)
FRENCH DIPLOMAT and POLITICIAN 1871-1902,
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ERA FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO MADRID, SPAIN 1897-1902,
AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES AT WASHINGTON, D.C. 1893-1896
MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY IN MOROCCO 1888-1891
&
FRENCH MINISTER TO CHINA – NEGOTIATING FOR THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE OF THE DOMINION OF ANNAM IN FRENCH INDOCHINA 1884-1887.
Patenotre was sent to Washington, D. C., in the mid-1890s, where he was raised to the rank of ambassador by the French Government in 1893.
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HERE’S PATE
NOTRE’S SIGNATURE, WHILE FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, ON AN AUTOGRAPH CARD, SIGNED and DATED:
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Patenotre~ 1894”
The document measures 3¾” x 2” and is in Very Fine condition!
A Fine Piece of 19
th
Century World Diplomatic/Political History to add to your Autograph, Manuscript & Ephemera Collection.
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BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLE
JULES PATENÔTRE DES NOYERS
Jules Patenôtre des Noyers
(20 April 1845 – 26 December 1925) was a
French
diplomat
.
Life
Patenôtre was born in Baye (
Marne
). Educated at the
École Normale Supérieure
, he taught for some years in the
Algiers
lycée before he joined the diplomatic service in 1871. He took service from 1873 to 1876 in the North of
Persia
. In 1880, he was minister plenipotentiary in
Stockholm
,
Sweden
.
In September 1883 he was named French minister to China and could conduct his most important mission in 1884, when he was sent as to regularize the French dominion in the Vietnamese protectorate state of Annam. The
Harmand Treaty
of 25 August 1883 had not been ratified by the French parliament and had upset the Chinese government. Patenôtre left Marseille at the end of April 1884 with a modified version of the treaty drafted by the
Quai d'Orsay
for signature by the king of
Annam
.
At the end of May, he moved to a military vessel near Cap Saint-Jacques, learnt about the end of the Sino-French war and the
Tientsin Accord
of 11 May and received additional instructions from Paris. He arrived in
Hải Phòng
on 26 May and in
Huế
on 30 May,
and started discussions with
Nguyễn Văn Tường
, the Regent.
On 6 June 1884, the imperial Chinese seal - a symbol of the vassal status of
Annam
which had been given to
Gia Long
- was melted and the
Patenôtre Treaty
was signed.
He then proceeded to Shanghai where he arrived on 1 July to settle with China the difficulties which had arisen over the evacuation of the Chinese troops from Tongking. The negotiation failed, and the French admiral
Sébastien Lespès
resumed hostilities against China in August 1884. The next year Patenôtre signed with Li Hongzhang a treaty of peace at Tientsin, by which the French protectorate in Annam and Tongking was recognized, and both parties agreed to remain within their own borders in the future.
After serving as minister plenipotentiary in
Morocco
(1888–1891), Patenôtre was sent to
Washington, D.C.
, where he was raised to the rank of ambassador in 1893. He was ambassador at
Madrid
from 1897 to 1902.
He was appointed a Grand Officer of the Order of
Legion d'Honneur
in 1902.
Jules Patenotre des Noyers married Eleanor Elverson, who was the sister of James Elverson, Jr. (– 1929), and daughter of publisher James Elverson, Sr. (1838 – 1911) by wife Sallie Duvall (the three of them owners of
The Philadelphia Inquirer
). They had a daughter:
Yvonne Patenôtre, married to Boniface, Marquis de Castellane (1896–1946), son of
Boni de Castellane
and
Anna Gould
, and had issue.
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