Gabriel Hanotaux

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Gabriel Hanotaux
Portrait of Gabriel Hanotaux
Portrait of Gabriel Hanotaux
Born(1853-11-19)19 November 1853
Beaurevoir, France
Died11 April 1944(1944-04-11) (aged 90)
Paris, France
OccupationHistorian

Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (19 November 1853 – 11 April 1944) was a French statesman and historian[1] who was France's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1894 to 1895 and 1896 to 1898.

Biography

He was born at

civil servant rather than a party politician. In 1879 he entered the ministry of foreign affairs as a secretary, and rose gradually through the diplomatic service.[2]

In 1886, he was elected deputy for Aisne, but, defeated in 1889, he returned to his diplomatic career, and on 31 May 1894 accepted the offer of

French colonies in Africa through agreements with the British. The Fashoda Incident of July 1898 was the most notable result of this policy. This seems to have intensified Hanotaux's distrust of England, which is apparent in his literary works[2]
(though most of these were written after he had left the Quai d'Orsay).

Hanotaux was elected a member of the

Académie française on 1 April 1897. He served as a delegate for France with the League of Nations and participated in the 1st (15 November – 18 December 1920), 2nd (5 September – 5 October 1921), 3rd (4–30 September 1922) and 4th Assemblies (3–29 September 1923). In the early 1920s, there were proposals for the League of Nations to accept Esperanto as a working language. Ten delegates accepted the proposals with only one voice against, the French delegate, Gabriel Hanotaux. The French employed their veto as a member of the League Council on all such votes, starting with the vote on 18 December 1920.[3] Hanotaux did not like how the French language was losing its position as the international language of diplomacy and saw Esperanto as a threat.[4]

Gabriel Hanotaux died in Paris in 1944 and was interred in the

.

Works

Grave of Hanotaux

Four volumes of his memoir, Mon Temps were published between 1933 and 1947.

He edited the Instructions des ambassadeurs de France à Rome, depuis les traités de Westphalie (1888).[2]

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Political offices
Preceded by
Minister of Foreign Affairs

1894–1895
Succeeded by
Marcelin Berthelot
Preceded by
Minister of Foreign Affairs

1896–1898
Succeeded by
Preceded by interim
Minister of Colonies

1898
Succeeded by