1-page autograph letter. Ambassade de France à Londres letterhead.
Dated 1903.
Written to "moi cher general" (General Sir Alfred Edward Turner)
Written in French and not yet translated. Declining an invitation and mentioning the Duke of Cambridge?
Pierre Paul Cambon (1843 – 1924) French diplomat. French ambassador to Madrid, then to Constantinople, and then London. Cambon became an important figure by helping to negotiate the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France in 1904 and serving as the French representative at the London Conference that resolved the Balkan Wars between 1912 and 1913. Although Cambon was Ambassador to Britain for more than two decades, he did not speak English and chose not to learn. To the contrary, he insisted that every remark be translated into French, including simple statements such as 'yes'. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, Cambon helped secure British intervention on the French side.
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