Paul Cambon
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Pierre Paul Cambon (January 20, 1843 - 1924) was a French diplomatist and brother to Jules Martin Cambon.
He was called to the Parisian bar, and became private secretary to Jules Ferry in the préfecture of the Seine. After ten years of administrative work in France as secretary of préfecture, and then as prefect successively of the départements of Aube (1872), Doubs (1876), Nord (1877-1882), he exchanged into the diplomatic service, being nominated French minister plenipotentiary at Tunis.
In 1886 be became French ambassador to Madrid; was transferred to Constantinople in 1890, and in 1898 to London. He was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur, and became a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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