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Title: Gaston Bergery papers
Date (inclusive): 1909-1973
Collection Number: 77069
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
French
Physical Description:
44 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope
(18.4 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Inter-allied Conference on Reparations and Inter-allied Debts (Location of meeting: London, England. Date of meeting or treaty
signing: 1924.)
Creator:
Bergery, Gaston, 1892-1974
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1977.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Gaston Bergery papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
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 |
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- France
France -- Colonies
World War, 1914-1918 -- Reparations
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
France -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945
Elections -- France
Communism -- France
Diplomats -- France
France -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- France
France -- Foreign relations
France -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- France
Inter-Allied Commission for Reparations