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Predestined. Geneviève was predestined for her job. She was born into a diplomatic family when "a little man named Loubet" was President of France's shaky third try at a Republic. Her uncle Jules Cambon ("the dominating influence in my life") was France's Ambassador to Washington, Madrid, Berlin. Her uncle, Paul Cambon, was France's famed Ambassador to London who signed the Entente Cordiale. She grew up amid discussions about anti-Semitism, anti-clericalism, anti-militarism, anti-Republicanism. She recalls, "as if it were yesterday," her parents saying: "Things have never been...
Ambassador Jules Cambon took youthful Niece Tabouis to France's embassy in Madrid to see the marriage of Alfonso XIII. There she had a foretaste of the history of the 20th Century. She saw a bomb explode in the wedding procession, spatter blood on the Queen's wedding dress, smash the crown on the royal coach...
Known variously to Parisians as "Aunt Geneviéve," "the Pythoness," sometimes "the wastepaper basket of Europe," Tabouis in private life is the wife of an obscure radio executive, mother of two grown children. In the house of her uncle Jules Cambon, onetime French Ambassador to Berlin, she acquired a taste for the vague generalities of political conversation. After the war she took to visiting sessions of the League of Nations, writing chatty letters to her uncle from Geneva...
Significance. From a wholly detached point of view there was "no immediate cause for alarm." As the dean of French diplomats, Jules Cambon, has said: "The Germans do not want war; all they want is the rewards of victory...
Died. Jules Martin Cambon, 90, "dean of French diplomats," onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. (1897-1901), Spain (1901-07), Germany (1907-14), able brother of able Pierre Paul Cambon who as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's laid the foundations of the Anglo-French entente; in Vevey, Switzerland...