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Place of Birth: Pau, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Jacques Seydoux
- Charles Louis Auguste Jacques Seydoux (1870–1929) was a French diplomat, economist and Director of Commercial Relations at the French Foreign Ministry.Seydoux was the son of Anne Elisabeth (Sers) and Louis Auguste Seydoux.
- He was the organiser of the Blockade Department during the First World War and was Assistant Director for Commercial Affairs from May 1919 to October 1924.
- He was then Deputy Director of Political and Commercial Affairs from until December 1926.
- He was estimated by his colleagues as the most creative thinker on political matters and he wrote every major paper on economics at the Foreign Ministry for eight years.
- During the 1920s he was the chief reparations expert on the French side and was firmly in favour of Franco-German economic rapprochement.The historian Stephen Schuker called Seydoux "by far the most lucid mind among senior French bureaucrats in the 1920s...self-effacing, nonpolitical, but independent-minded who put his expertise at the service of the most diverse political superiors and managed to win the admiration of them all".
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