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The death of a French ambassador

2021-06-30T16:38:48.379Z


TRIBUNE - Jean-Michel Delacomptée is an essayist and academic *, known for his remarkable literary portraits. He worked eighteen years in cultural cooperation and pays tribute to Jean Guéguinou, a high figure of French diplomacy who has just died.


The disappearance of a French ambassador takes with it a part of our history.

Jean Guéguinou died on June 21, 2021 in Paris, peacefully, after a long fight.

He had his profession engraved in his heart.

I know this from experience, having had the honor of serving under his orders in Jerusalem, where he was appointed consul general in 1982, at the age of 41, the youngest holder of this post.

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He was a man that it was enough to cross not to forget him again.

Not that he sought to impose himself from the height of his functions, for he was suffused with benevolence.

But he inspired respect by the straightforwardness of his gaze, by his presence, by the smiling firmness of his voice, and, quite interior virtue, by the exact adequacy of his being with the free choices that governed his life.

To which was added the impression left, almost indefinable, of a man who, from the outset, placed his trust in you, it being up to you to prove yourself worthy of it.

This is how the final friendships are formed.

From his adolescence,

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Source: lefigaro

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