Luc de La Barre de Nanteuil (21 September 1925 at Lhommaizé - 14 August 2018 in Lhommaizé) was a French career

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

, who rose to become an Ambassador of France. Son of Jean de La Barre de Nanteuil and Marguerite Robert de Beauchamp, he graduated from the

École nationale d'administration The École nationale d'administration (generally referred to as ENA, en, National School of Administration) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by President of France, President Charles de Gaulle and principal author of the Constitu ...

(ENA) in Paris, before joining the French diplomatic service at the

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. La Barre de Nanteuil started his career serving in the

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before being posted as the Ambassador to the

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in 1976 and 1977. He was quickly transferred to represent France as the Permanent Representative to the

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(EU), serving until 1981. He was posted to New York as

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Presidents of the Security Council : 1980-1989
, un.org. and then back to Brussels as the Permanent Representative to the EU, before being promoted Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He served in

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from 1986 until retiring from French diplomatic circles in 1990. La Barre de Nanteuil subsequently was Chairman of ''Les Echos'' Group from 1991 until 2003. He had two children and lived in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

with his second wife Hedwige, ''née'' Frèrejean de Chavagneux.

Honours

Officier,

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

, * Commandeur,

Ordre national du Mérite The Ordre national du Mérite (; en, National Order of Merit) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's esta ...

; La Barre de Nanteuil was granted the

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and

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of ''Ambassadeur de France'' (

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) in 1991, by President François Mitterrand.

Publication

* ''

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

'', 1985.

References

External links

www.whoswho.fr

Généalogie des La Barre de Nanteuil
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