Maurice Bompard (17 May 1854 – 7 April 1935) was a pre-WWI French diplomat and later a politician.

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Bompard was Resident-General for Madagascar from 1889 to 1890. He was head of the Consular department at the

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(Quai d′Orsay), when in September 1902 he was appointed French Ambassador to Russia. In 1909 he was transferred to the post of

French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire France had a permanent embassy to the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1535, during the time of King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It is considered to have been the direct predecessor of the modern-day embassy to the Republic of Turke ...

, serving as such until 1914.''Empires of the sand: the struggle for mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923, by Efraim Karsh,Inari Karsh, p.123
/ref> After the end of the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, he was elected a

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; german: Mosel ; lb, Musel ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it jo ...

in January 1920, stepping down in 1933, before his death two years later.

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{{Authority control Ambassadors of France to the Ottoman Empire Colonial Governors of French Madagascar 1854 births 1935 deaths Ambassadors of France to the Russian Empire Senators of Moselle (department)

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