biography
pronunciation:
[kasĩ]
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| lived:
| (1887–1976)
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| biography:
| Jurist and French statesman, born in Bayonne, SW France. He studied at Aix-en-Provence and Paris universities, and was professor of international law at Lille (1920–9) and at Paris (1929–60). During World War 2 he joined Charles de Gaulle in London. He was principal legal adviser in negotiations with the British government, and held important posts in the French government in exile in London and Algiers, and subsequently in the Council of State (of which he was president, 1944–60) in liberated France. After the war he was increasingly concerned with the safeguarding of human rights, and played a leading part in the establishment of UNESCO. In 1968 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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