The son of an exiled Romanian revolutionary, Paleologue graduated in law and began working at the French Foreign Ministry in 1880. He then held positions as Embassy Secretary in Tangiers, Morocco, Beijing and Rome. In 1901, he became a Minister Plenipotentiary. He was the French ambassador to Bulgaria from 1907 to 1912 and to Russia from 1914 to 1917. In 1920, he was the secretary-general of the ministry of foreign affairs. He was elected to the French Academy in 1928. His memoirs of his Russian experiences were published in three volumes in 1923. His other works include Chinese Art (1887), The Turning-Point (1906), The Tragic Romance of Alexander II of Russia (1923), Cavour (1927), The Tragic Empress (1928), The Enigmatic Tsar (1938) and An Intimate Journal of the Dreyfus Case (1955-Posthumous). |
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