S. E. Jacques Viot (25 August 1921 – 4 July 2012) was a French

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and

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. The son of Edmond Viot, a civil servant, he was educated at

Lycée Louis-le-Grand The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris), rue Saint-Jacques in central Par ...

before attending ENS Paris. Formerly a lecturer at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

and a professor of

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in Paris, he served as French Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1984 until 1986, before being granted the title of Ambassadeur de France. In 1950 he married Jeanne de Martimprey de Romécourt.www.whoswho.fr
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Commandeur,

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, *

Commandeur,

Ordre national du Mérite The (; ) 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 establishment was twofold: to replace the large number of ...

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1921 births 2012 deaths Academics of Trinity College Dublin École nationale d'administration alumni 20th-century French diplomats Ambassadors of France to Canada Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite Commanders of the Legion of Honour French expatriates in Ireland {{France-diplomat-stub

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