François Georges-Picot
French diplomat who signed Sykes-Picot Agreement during World War I / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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François Marie Denis Georges-Picot (21 December 1870 – 20 June 1951) was a French diplomat and lawyer who negotiated the Sykes–Picot Agreement with the British diplomat Sir Mark Sykes between November 1915 and March 1916 before its signing on May 16, 1916.
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Born | François Marie Denis Georges-Picot (1870-12-21)21 December 1870 |
Died | 20 June 1951(1951-06-20) (aged 80) Paris, France |
Occupation(s) | Lawyer, Diplomat |
Known for | Sykes–Picot Agreement |
Spouse | Marie Fouquet |
Children | 3 |
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Relatives | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (great-nephew) Olga Georges-Picot (great-niece) |
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It was a secret deal which proposed that – when the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire began after a then theoretical victory of the Triple Entente – Britain and France, and later Russia and Italy, would divide up the Arab territories between them.