Adrien Thierry

Adrien Thierry
French Ambassador to Romania
In office
1936–1940
Preceded byAndré d'Ormesson
Succeeded byJacques Truelle
Personal details
Born
Adrien Joseph Marie Hilaire Thierry

(1885-01-04)4 January 1885
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône
Died26 January 1961(1961-01-26) (aged 76)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France
Spouse
Nadine de Rothschild
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(m. 1919; died 1959)​
Children3
Parent
EducationÉcole des sciences politiques

Adrien Joseph Marie Hilaire Thierry (4 January 1885 – 26 January 1961) was a French lawyer and diplomat.

Early life

Thierry was born on 4 January 1885 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur of France.[1] He was a son of Joseph Thierry (1857–1918),[2] a diplomat who served as Minister of Public Works, then Minister of Finance.[3]

His paternal grandparents were Catherine (née Berbach) Thierry and Joseph Marie Philippe Thierry, who was the last French mayor of Haguenau before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, after which Haguenau was ceded to the German Empire and his family was expelled by the Germans, taking refuge in Marseille.[4][5]

Career

After he graduated with a law degree from the École des sciences politiques, he began his career as diplomat with the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs.[6] He first served as embassy attaché in the minister's office in June 1910 before transferring to the French Embassy at London in March 1911.[6] By the time of his 1919 wedding, he was counselor of the Embassy there,[7][8] eventually spending a total of years seventeen years with the London Embassy and was said to have developed a "genuine fondness for Britain".[9]

From until 1938, he served as the French Envoy to Greece.[10] From 1936 to 1940, he served as the French Ambassador to Romania in Bucharest, succeeding André d'Ormesson.[11]

In June 1940, he was among a caravan of automobiles fleeing to Spain, which included Empress Zita, her brother Prince Francisco and sister Princess Isabel, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (who was married to the Empress's brother, Prince Felix), Elisabeth, Philippine and Eugène von Rothschild, and the Polish pianist Stanislas Niedzielski.[12]

He later served on the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine until his death in 1961, after which he was succeeded by Jacques Fouques-Duparc.[13]

Personal life

On 7 August 1919, Thierry was married to Baroness Nadine Charlotte Thérèse Jeanne Mathilde de Rothschild (1898–1958), the only daughter of Baron Henri de Rothschild.[7] She continued her father's philanthropic works with the French Hospital,[14] and, upon his 1947 death, inherited a number of his paintings, including by Jean Siméon Chardin.[15] Her younger brother, Philippe de Rothschild, was the father of Philippine de Rothschild, who inherited the family's French winery Château Mouton Rothschild. Together, they were the parents of three children, including:[16][17]

  • Jacques Thierry (1921–2015),[3] who became president of the Banque Lambert in 1975;[18] he married Jacqueline-Lucie Réville in 1946.[3]

His wife Nadine died at Villa Sansovino, her home in Cannes, on 22 October 1958. La Sansovino, as it is sometimes referred to, had previously been the residence of Lord Derby, the British Ambassador to France, and was later owned by Prince Charles, Count of Flanders.[19] Thierry died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 26 January 1961, and was buried alongside his wife at Cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes.

References

  1. ^ Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la République Française (in French). 1911. p. 283. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  2. ^ "THIERRY Joseph Marie Philippe". www.alsace-histoire.org (in French). Fédération des Sociétés d'Histoire et d'Archéologie d'Alsace. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Biographie de Jacques Thierry Banquier - Who's Who". www.whoswho.fr (in French). Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  4. ^ Jolly, Jean (1960–1977). "Thierry (Joseph, Marie, Philippe)". Dictionnaire des parlementaires français; notices biographiques sur les ministres, députés et sénateurs français de 1889 à 1940 (in French). Paris: Presses universitaires de France. pp. 1960–1977. ISBN 2-1100-1998-0. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  5. ^ "THIERRY Joseph". www.alsace-histoire.org (in French). Fédération des Sociétés d'Histoire et d'Archéologie d'Alsace. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b Archives diplomatiques: recueil mensuel de diplomatie, d'histoire et de droit international (in French). Amyot. 1912. p. 204. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  7. ^ a b "A CHARMING PORTRAIT STUDY Of a Member of the Rothschild Family". Tatler: An Illustrated Journal of Society, the Drama, and Sport...: 307. 1919. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  8. ^ Norwich, John Julius (20 March 2014). The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951. Orion. p. 466. ISBN 978-1-78022-750-4. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  9. ^ Hoisington, William A. (1968). A Businessman in Politics in France, 1935-1955: The Career of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil. Stanford University. p. 175. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Un mouvement diplomatique". Journal des Débats (in French). 29 May 1940. ISSN 1770-619X. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  11. ^ Hoisington, William A. (1971). "The Struggle for Economic Influence in Southeastern Europe: The French Failure in Romania, 1940". The Journal of Modern History. 43 (3): 468–482. doi:10.1086/240652. ISSN 0022-2801. JSTOR 1878564. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  12. ^ "ROYALTY FLEES TO SPAIN Former Empress Zita Among Those in Motor Caravan". The New York Times. 20 June 1940. p. 5. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  13. ^ l’Europe, Council of Europe / Conseil de (17 April 2013). Annuaire Européen / European Yearbook: Vol. IX: Publié Sous les Auspices du Conseil de L'europe / Published under the Auspices of the Council of Europe (in French). Springer. p. 134. ISBN 978-94-015-2844-3. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  14. ^ Paul, Harry W. (5 December 2016). Henri de Rothschild, 1872–1947: Medicine and Theater. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-351-93103-8. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  15. ^ Baetjer, Katharine (15 April 2019). French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-58839-661-7. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  16. ^ "Nadine Charlotte Thérèse Jeanne Mathilde de Rothschild (1898-1958)". family.rothschildarchive.org. The Rothschild Archive. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  17. ^ Rothschild, Miriam (1983). Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies and History. Hutchinson. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-09-153740-1. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  18. ^ Farnsworth, Clyde H. (30 September 1972). "Baron Lambert Creates a Giant". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  19. ^ Emerson, Maureen (31 January 2021). "Lord Derby". www.rivieradreaming.co.uk. Riviera Dreaming. Retrieved 13 September 2024.