Xavier de la Chevalie – Wikipedia

Xavier DAUFRESNE DE LA CHEVALIE , born the January 28, 1920 In Paris and died on August 21, 2004 In Saint-Nazaire, is a French diplomat.

Having joined the free French forces from July 1940 , career diplomat, Xavier de la Chevalerie was the director of the cabinet of General de Gaulle (1967-1969).

Xavier de la Chevalie was a student at the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, otherwise named Franklin. He holds a law license and graduated from the Free School of Political Science, promotion 1939.

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Mobilized in 1940, Xavier de la chivalry was incorporated into the 27 ^{It is} Burgundy regiment, says Burgundy regiment. At the announcement of the armistice of June 22, 1940, he assumed his desertion of the French army by joining the free French forces.

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Xavier de la Chevalie was received in 1945 in the Special Foreign Affairs Competition organized for those who had been prisoners or had fought in free France or the Resistance. He will occupy throughout his career no less than seventeen positions.

Shanghai ( January 1946 – April 1947 ), Manila ( April 1947 – August 1947 ), Paris Direction of Asia Oceania ( October 1947 – mars 1949 ), New Delhi ( mars 1949 – May 1951 ), Beirut ( May 1951 – October 1953 ), London ( mars 1954 – February 1957 ), Tunis ( February 1957 – July 1961 )

In July 1961 , he became the director of the Cabinet of Georges Gorse, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, then at the Ministry of Cooperation, until January 1963 .

In June 1963 , He has been appointed to the post of first advisor in Rabat since then, then in 1965 of project manager after the recall of the ambassador, Mr. Gillet, following the Ben Barka affair.

In 1979, he was appointed “extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador” in Japan ^{[ first ]} Until 1983, then to the Vatican until 1985 ^{[ 2 ]} .

Director of the cabinet of General de Gaulle (1967-1969) [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In January 1967 , General de Gaulle chooses him as his chief of staff.

After the failure in the referendum of April 27, 1969, Xavier de la Chevalie organizes, in great secrecy, the stay in Ireland of General de Gaulle ^{[ 3 ]} .
The May 10, 1969 , a flight of Glam, from Saint-Dizier in mystery 20 and bound for Cork aerodrome, wins the general accompanied by M ^me De Gaulle and François Flohic. They land around 11 a.m. Paul Fontenil is their driver with a rental car. They will spend 13 days in Sneem then two weeks in Cashel ^{[ 4 ] , [ 5 ]}

Xavier de la Chevalie then continued his diplomatic career by successively ensuring the posts of Ambassador of France in Mexico (1970-1973), in Senegal (1973-1975), in Cap-Vert and in Guinea-Bissau (1975-1976), In Canada (1977-1979), in Japan (1979-1983), near the Holy See (1983-1985).

In the Council of Ministers, dated June 6, 1984 , Xavier de la chivalry is raised to the dignity of Ambassador of France. His wife died in 1985. His wife Marie-France is the daughter of Belgian journalist René Hislaire, daily correspondent The evening in New York after the war ^{[ 6 ]} .

Even if the Daufresne family of chivalry is not aristocratic filiation, it has a coat of arms: “gold, with a sinople ash, terraced likewise”.

• Xavier de la Chevalie, “The days of May 1968 to the Élysée and their epilogue: testimony ”, in Revue Hope n ^O 115, 1998. Archives of the Charles de Gaulle Foundation
• Claude Dulong, Daily life at the Élysée at the time of Charles de Gaulle
• Éric Chiaradia, “The entourage of General de Gaulle at the Élysée: January 1959 – April 28, 1969  », in History and politics , May- August 2009
• Florence d’Harcourt, Aunt Yvonne: an officer’s woman
• Frédéric Bastien, The weight of cooperation: the France-Québec report , Montreal, Quebec America, coll. “Debates”, 2006, 275 p.

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