Gaston Bergery papers, 1909-1973

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Creators:
Inter-allied Conference on Reparations and Inter-allied Debts (Location of meeting: London, England. Date of meeting or treaty signing: 1924.) and Bergery, Gaston, 1892-1974
Abstract:
Correspondence, telegrams, reports, memoranda, lists, speeches and writings, and leaflets relating to French political events and foreign relations, France during World War II, and the Front Populaire.
Extent:
44 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope (18.4 Linear Feet)
Language:
French
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Gaston Bergery papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence, telegrams, reports, memoranda, lists, speeches and writings, and leaflets relating to French political events and foreign relations, France during World War II, and the Front Populaire.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1892 November 22
Born, Paris, France
1912
Received bachelor's degree in law
1914
Enlisted; wounded in 1915
1916
Liaison with the British Army
1917
Decorated with the Military Cross for distinguished services
1918
Attached to the Secretariat of the Versailles Peace Conference
1918-1924
Deputy Secretary-General of the Inter-Allied Commission for Reparations
1920
Married Germaine Malançon
1924
Decorated with the Legion of Honor
1924
Delegate to the London Conference
1924-1925
Director of the Cabinet of Edouard Herriot, Minister of Foreign Affairs
1925
In charge of a mission to the United States
1926
Attorney, Court of Appeals, Paris (specialized in private international law)
1927
Married Lubov Krassin; son Jean-François raised by her in London after she and Bergery divorced in 1928
1928
Founded the daily Mantes Republicain
1928-1934
Deputy of the Seine-et-Oise (radical-socialist party); Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs
1935-1939
Founded and directed the weekly La Flèche
1936-1942
Deputy ("frontiste "party, which he founded with Jacques Izard)
1934
Married Elisabeth (Bettina) Shaw-Jones
1937
Author, Air-Afrique, Voie Impériale
1938
Author, Notre Plan, Principes de l'Economie Frontiste
1940 November
Sent on a mission to Switzerland by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1941 April-June
Ambassador to the Soviet Union
1942 June - 1944 September
Ambassador to Turkey
1945
Returned voluntarily to France; Tried, Court of Justice, Paris - Acquitted in 1949
1947
Resumed legal career
1948
Author, La Vierge et le Sagittaire (under the pseudonym of Gaston François)
1957-1958
Columnist for the daily Paris-Presse l'Intransigeant ("Libre Chronique Diplomatique")
1969
Retired
1974
Died
Acquisition information:
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1977.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Gaston Bergery papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
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Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
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