Francis Lacoste

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Person.png Francis Lacoste  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(diplomat, spook?)
Born27 November 1905
Paris, France
Died28 June 1993 (Age 87)
France
NationalityFrench
Parents • Charles Lacoste
• Jeanne Veillet-Lavallée
Member ofLe Cercle
French diplomat and visitor to Le Cercle

Francis Lacoste was a French diplomat and visitor to Le Cercle.

Background

Francis Lacoste was born in Paris on 27 November 1905, the eldest of two children of the painter Charles Lacoste and Jeanne Veillet-Lavallée. From childhood he had a passion for overseas, geography and history. At 15 he passed his baccalaureate, and a year later won the First Prize of Geography city of Paris which was a trip to Africa, the Senegal River and Tangier in the company of prominent geographers. In 1923 he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation, and sailed for the United States where he aattended seminars in Harvard and Berkeley, California. He wrote his graduation thesis on "the relationship between the US and China in the nineteenth century."

Activities

Lacoste fought in the resistance against the Germans during World War II.

Deep political connections

He attended Le Cercle in 1984.

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn)30 June 19833 July 1983Germany
Bonn
Le Cercle/1984 (Capetown)12 January 198415 January 1984South Africa
Stellenbosch
Capetown
4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Capetown exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011
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