Raoul V. Bossy (1894–1975) was a
Romania
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diplomat.
He pursued his university studies at the
Sorbonne
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, in
Paris
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, where he graduated as Licentiate in
Law
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. He continued his studies at the Diplomatic Section of the
École Libre des Sciences Politiques
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(Diplomatic Section), in Paris.
Bossy started his career as diplomat in 1918, after the end of
World War I
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, being private secretary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
His next assignment was Second Secretary of the Romanian legation in
Rome
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(1921–23). In this interval he also was a member of the Romanian delegation to the
League of Nations
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. Raoul Bossy was also member of the Romanian delegation to the Economical International Conference in
Genoa
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(April 10-May 19, 1922) and Romanian Delegate to the
International Agricultural Institute
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in Rome. In 1923 he was recalled and worked as political advisor at the Prime Minister's Office under
Ion I.C. Brătianu (1923–26). He then returned to Rome as first secretary of the Romanian legation (1926–27). During the minority of King
Michael of Romania
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(1927–30) he was appointed secretary general of the Regency, returning to his diplomatic career as
counsellor of Romanian legation in
Vienna
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(1931–34).
In 1934 he was promoted minister plenipotentiary, being assigned to head the legations in
Helsinki
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(1934–36),
Budapest
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(1936–39), Rome (1939–40),
Bern (1940–41) and
Berlin
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(1941–43).
In 1943 he resigned because of his disagreements with the policies of
Ion Antonescu, being appointed Permanent Delegate and Chief Liaison Officer of the Romanian Red Cross to the
International Committee of the Red Cross
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in Geneva, the
League of Red Cross Societies
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, and the
International Union for Child Welfare.
Raoul Bossy was member of the
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Académie Diplomatique Internationale
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of Paris
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Romanian Association for a United Europe
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Ecole Libre des Sciences et des Lettres
* University Institute Carol I of Paris
* Romanian Royal Society of Geography.
Raoul Bossy has also lectured in Canada under the sponsorship of the
Canadian Institute of International Affairs
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of
Toronto
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.
Works
* ''Politica externă a României între anii 1873–1880, privită dela Agenția diplomatică din Roma. '' Academia Română, Studii și cercetări 14. București: Cultura Natională, 1928. On Romanian foreign policy between 1873 and 1880.
* ''Agenția diplomatică a României în Paris şi legăturile politice franco-române sub Cuza-Vod. București: Cartea Românească, 1931.
On political relations between France and Romania.
* “Agenția diplomatică a României la Belgrad și legăturile politice româno-sârbe sub Cuza Vodă.” Academia Română, ''Memoriile secțiunii istorice'', s. 3, t. 15 (1934), mem. 1: 2-59. On political relations between Romania and Serbia between 1859 and 1866.
* ''Mărturii finlandeze despre România. '' București: Cartea Românească, 1937. On memoirs of Finnish officers in the Russian armies that occupied Romania in the 19th century.
* “Urme românești în Miază-Noapte : 1. Altă replică a portretului lui Mihai Viteazul; 2. Cheia cetății Hotinului.” Academia Română, ''Memoriile secțiunii istorice'', s. 3, t. 19 (1937), mem. 3: 47-49.
* ''L’Autriche et les Principautés-Unies.'' Académie roumaine, Etudes et recherches 10. Bucarest: Moniteur officiel et Imprimerie de l’Etat, Imprimerie Nationale, 1938. On relations between Austria and the Romanian Principalities.
* “Vechi năzuințe federaliste în sud-estul Europei: memoriu prezentat in ședința deia 9 Februare 1940.” Academia Română, Memoriile secțiunii istorice, s. 3,
t. 22 (1939–1940): 437-451. On south-eastern trends towards European federation.
* “Propaganda austriacă împotriva unirii principatelor.” Academia Română, ''Memoriile secțiunii istorice'', s. 3, t. 24 (1941): 1-9. On Austrian propaganda against the unification of the Romanian principalities.
* “Un drumeț danez în principate.” Academia Română, ''Memoriile secțiunii istorice'', s. 3, (1941). A Danish traveller in the Romanian principalities.
* “L’idée fédéraliste dans le centre et le sud-est de l’Europe.” ''Cahiers du Monde Nouveau'' 5/1 (janvier 1949): 29-36. On trends toward federalism in central and south-east Europe.
* “Les nations de l’Est et la fédération européenne.” ''Bulletin Européen'' 2/8-9 (août-septembre 1951): 3. https://web.archive.org/web/20120327002743/http://www.fondazionedragan.org/media/08_09_1951_be_fr_agosto_settembre.pdf
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* “Religious Persecutions in Captive Romania.” ''Journal of Central European Affairs'' 15 (July 1955).
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* “L’alliance entre le prince Alexandre-Jean Couza de Roumanie et les princes Miloch et Michel Obrénovitch de Serbie.” ''Revue des études roumaines 7-8'' (1961): 60-69.
* “La diplomatie russe et l’union des principautés roumaines (1858-1859) d’après la correspondance Gortchakoff-Giers.” ''Revue d’histoire diplomatique'' 76/3 (juillet-septembre 1962): 255-266. Russian diplomacy and the unification of the Romanian principalities.
* “Elizabethans and Romanians.” ''The Polish Review'' 8/4 (Autumn 1963): 81-90.
* “Gobineau et la politique des nationalités.” ''Revue d’histoire diplomatique'' 78.1 (mars 1964): 35-40.
* "Recunoașterea oficială a numelui " România "." ''Ființa românească'' 4 (1966): 101-115.
* "Les Roumains et l'idée fédéraliste au XIX
e siècle." ''Revue d'histoire diplomatique'' 81/2 (juin 1967): 168-175.
* "Projet de bloc neutre en 1939." ''Revue d'histoire diplomatique'' 82/4 (octobre-décembre 1968): 358-368.
* "L'entrée en guerre de la Roumanie vue par le Grand-duc Nicolas Michaïlovitch (1916)." ''Revue d'histoire diplomatique'' 87/3-4 (juillet-décembre 1973).
* ''Amintiri din viața diplomatică (1918–1940).'' 2 vol. Ed. Stelian Neagoe. București: Humanitas, 1993. (, ,9732803799, 9732804297)
* ''Recollections of a Romanian Diplomat, 1918-1969: Diaries and Memoirs of Raoul Bossy.'' Ed. and trans. G.H. and M.-A. Bossy. 2 vol. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University Press, 2003. (, )
* ''Jurnal :2 noiembrie 1940 – 9 iulie 1969.'' Ed. Ion Mamina. București: Editura Enciclopedică, 2001. ()
Sources
* Neagoe, Stelian. "Studiu introductiv." In Bossy, Raoul V. ''Amintiri din viaţa diplomatică : 1918–1940.'' Vol. 1, pp. 5–29.
* Baron Georges de Serdici, baron, Papers, 1947-1990 Folder 6 1950 -Correspondence with Raoul Bossy – Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University
* Assembly of Captive European Nations records, 1953–1972, Immigration History Research Center Archives – University of Minnesota Libraries – Box 41, Folder 10, 'Raoul Bossy, 1954-1963'
* Istoria Transilvaniei vol. II. Ed. George Bariţiu, Cluj, 1997
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1890s births
1975 deaths
Romanian diplomats
University of Paris alumni
20th-century Romanian historians
Romanian expatriates in France