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...ophile Delcassé started life as writer on foreign politics for Gambetta's "La Republique Française." He became a Deputy in 1889 Following his ejection from the Foreign office by the Kaiser, he was Minister of Marine until 1913; from 1913-1914 he was Ambassador to Russia; then, returned to the conduct of the Foreign Office for one brief year. He received the Legion of Honor in 1887 and Order of St. Andrew, Russia...
...Delcassé built for France a new foreign policy. His architectonic genius determined the conditions under which France would fight when the Kaiser was ready to announce Der Tag. Without Delcassé France might now be a German province and Foch a refugee...
Late in the afternoon of his death, Delcassé went alone to the gardens of the Bishop's palace to hear the band. Heart attack came on. He retired to a secluded corner of the garden. Caretakers found his body soon after twilight...
...days later the Paris Matin published Delcassé's last letter to Stéphane Lausanne, the violently patriotic editor. Delcassé said: "The Rhine is our security...
...hours before Delcassé died, General Lyautey went under the surgeon's knife at Rabat, on the African shore of the Mediterranean. He may die. These two Frenchmen, one a politician and the other a Field Marshal, were chiefly responsible for the creation of France's colonial empire, a territory larger than the United States by 1,000,000 square miles...