Jacques Fouques-Duparc

Fouques-Duparc began his diplomatic career in 1921 as part of the French delegation at the League of Nations, the precursor to the United Nations which had been founded in 1919.^[1][2] He worked there until 1924 and again between 1926 and 1932. From 1924 to 1926, he worked as an embassy secretary at the French embassy in Berlin.^[1][2] In 1932, Fouques-Duparc returned to France where he worked in various positions in the central administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a senior advisor for Louis Barthou and Yvon Delbos.^[1][2] In 1938, he left France again, this time for Madrid where he worked at the embassy for a year before joining the French public radio administration as the head of the foreign language broadcasts.^[1][2] After the French defeat to Germany in 1940, Fouques-Duparc, who was hostile to the Vichy Regime, was dismissed and joined the French Resistance.^[1][2]

Following the war, Fouques-Duparc resumed his diplomatic career and was a delegate at the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco and a senior advisor to Léon Blum.^[1] In 1947, he was named French ambassador to Italy and held the position until 1957.^[3] He finished his career in France holding various responsibilities in French foreign affairs.^[1]

• La protection des minorités de race, de langue et de religion : Étude de droit des gens, Dalloz, 1922. (Full text)
• Le Troisième Richelieu. Libérateur du territoire en 1815, Lyon, Lardanchet, 1940