Pichon
STÉPHEN, French journalist and statesman, born in Arnay le Duc, 1857, studied medicine at the University of Paris, but instead of following the medical profession, he took up journalism and, in 1880, joined the editorial staff of "La Justice." In 1882 he was elected to the municipal council of Paris, of which he later became secretary. In 1885 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, of which he was secretary from 1889 to 1890. In 1894 he served successively, for short periods, as French Minister to Hayti, Brazil, China (where he was present during the Boxer uprising) and to Tunis. In 1905 he became a member of the Senate, from Jura. In the year following he was given the portfolio for Foreign Affairs, by Clemenceau. This same post he held in the Briand Cabinet, in 1910-1911 and under Barthou, in 1913.
After the reorganization of the French Cabinet, in November, 1917, when Clemenceau became Premier, Pichon again became Minister of Foreign Affairs, and also a member of the War Committee of the Cabinet. At the Peace Conference at Versailles he acted as one of the French delegates.