Adrien Joseph Marie Hilaire Thierry (4 January 1885 – 26 January 1961) was a French lawyer and diplomat.

Early life

Thierry was born on 4 January 1885 in

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in the

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of France. He was a son of

Joseph Thierry Joseph Marie Philippe Thierry (2 March 1857 – 22 September 1918) was a French lawyer and politician. He was deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône from 1898 to 1918. He was Minister of Public Works in 1913 and Minister of Finance in 1917. As Minister of F ...

(1857–1918), a diplomat who served as

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, then

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. His paternal grandparents were Catherine ( Berbach) Thierry and Joseph Marie Philippe Thierry, who was the last French mayor of

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before the

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of 1870, after which Haguenau was ceded to the

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and his family was expelled by the Germans, taking refuge in Marseille.

Career

After he graduated with a law degree from the

École des sciences politiques Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

, he began his career as diplomat with the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He first served as embassy

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in the minister's office in June 1910 before transferring to the French Embassy at London in March 1911. By the time of his 1919 wedding, he was counselor of the Embassy there, eventually spending a total of years seventeen years with the London Embassy and was said to have developed a "genuine fondness for Britain". From until 1938, he served as the French Envoy to Greece. From 1936 to 1940, he served as the French Ambassador to Romania in

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, succeeding André d'Ormesson. In June 1940, he was among a caravan of automobiles fleeing to Spain, which included Empress Zita, her brother Prince Francisco and sister Princess Isabel,

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(who was married to the Empress's brother, Prince Felix), Elisabeth,

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and

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, and the Polish pianist

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. He later served on the

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until his death in 1961, after which he was succeeded by

Jacques Fouques-Duparc Jacques Fouques-Duparc (4 March 1897, in Paris – 2 August 1966) was a French diplomat and writer. Early life Jacques Fouques-Duparc was born in Paris on 4 March 1897, the son of a diplomat. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet and later at th ...

Personal life

On 7 August 1919, Thierry was married to Baroness ''Nadine'' Charlotte Thérèse Jeanne Mathilde de

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(1898–1958), the only daughter of Baron

Henri de Rothschild Henri James Nathaniel Charles, Baron de Rothschild (26 July 1872 – 12 October 1947) was a French playwright who wrote under the pen names André Pascal, Charles des Fontaines, and P.-L. Naveau. He was also qualified as a physician (although h ...

. She continued her father's philanthropic works with the French Hospital, and, upon his 1947 death, inherited a number of his paintings, including by

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. Her younger brother,

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, was the father of

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, who inherited the family's French winery

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. Together, they were the parents of three children, including: * Jacques Thierry (1921–2015), who became president of the Banque Lambert in 1975; he married Jacqueline-Lucie Réville in 1946. His wife Nadine died at Villa Sansovino, her home in

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, on 22 October 1958. La Sansovino, as it is sometimes referred to, had previously been the residence of

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, the

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, and was later owned by

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. Thierry died in

Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the ...

on 26 January 1961, and was buried alongside his wife at Cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes.

References

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Thierry Thierry is a French male given name, derived from the Germanic "Theodoric". It is the cognate of German "Dietrich" and " Dieter", Italian Teodorico, Derek and Derrick, and of various forms in other European languages. It is also a surname. Peo ...

Burials at the Cimetière du Grand Jas