Jacques Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin (1899-1956) was a French diplomat who took part in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
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Early life
Jacques Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin was born on December 5, 1899. His father was Georges Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin and his mother, Renée Étienne.
Career
He was delegated to Wiesbaden for the Armistice Conference on June 22, 1940.
Political assistant to General Maxime Weygand in Algiers, he prepared and took part in the Allied landings in North Africa in November 1942.
Secretary for External Affairs - equivalent to Minister of Foreign Affairs - in the French Civil and Military High Command, the provisional government headed by General Giraud in Algiers.
Delegate to Turkey for the French Committee of National Liberation in 1943.
Ambassador to Baden in 1945 and political advisor to General Kœnig.
He served as a diplomat in Berlin in 1948. He warned that the Soviet Union might try to expel Westerners from Berlin.
He served as the French Ambassador to Turkey from 1952 to 1955.
He was made Commander of the French Legion of Honor.
Death
He died on September 25, 1956, in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris.