Chodron de Courcel arms Baron Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel (11 September 1912, Tours - 9 December 1992, Paris ), was a French nobleman, soldier and diplomat.
He was Aide-de-Camp to Charles de Gaulle in 1940 and escaped to England with the General on 17 June 1940 with the help of General Sir Edward Spears . Geoffroy Chodron was the first officer to sign up with the Free French Forces , established by De Gaulle when he was in London.
From 1941 he served as De Gaulle’s private secretary and would later command a squadron of the 1er régiment de marche de Spahis marocains (1st Spahi Regiment ), formed out of other units.[ 1]
After the War , he returned to the French Foreign Ministry before holding several important appointments, including that of Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 16 March 1962 until 20 April 1972.[ 1]
Family
The Chodron de Courcel family, who were landed gentry (or petite noblesse ), were created Barons by Emperor Napoleon III .
He was the only son of Baron Louis de Chodron de Courcel (1874-1962), by his wife Alice Lambert-Champy (1886-1967); S.E. Baron Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel had three sisters:
Louise: married Xavier Baudon de Mony
Elisabeth: married Olivier, comte de Chastellux
Henriette: married Louis , marquis de Lasteyrie . His grandfather, Baron Alphonse Chodron de Courcel , was French Ambassador to London from 1894 until 1898.
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