"French Ambassador" Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet Hand Signed FDC for Sale

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"French Ambassador" Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet Hand Signed FDC For Sale

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"French Ambassador" Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet Hand Signed FDC:
$399.99

Up for sale a RARE! "French Ambassador" Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet Hand Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1962. This sale includes a RARE! official United Nations B&W photo.

States from 1972 to 1977. Born in Paris to a

respected Polish family, Kosciusco earned a degree in ethics and

sociology from the École normale supérieure and

taught high school in Grenoble from 1941 to 1943. He fought

in World War II and was

captured by German forces. He escaped, joined the French resistance, and participated in the defense of

the city hall of Paris in 1944,for

which he was decorated after the war.

Kosciusko served as bureaucrat in various French ministries before becoming a

diplomat. He became Chief of Staff to the Secretary General of the Prefecture

of Police and Assistant at the Faculty of Letters in Paris from 1944 to 1946.

He was briefly a professor at Columbia University in

1946. He was made deputy director of the cabinet of Léon Blum in 1946, and then Chief of Staff (Civil) for

President Vincent Auriol in

1947, a position he held until 1954. He also served Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d'Ivoire from 1956 to standing rose when he was France's delegate to the United Nations General

Assembly from 1957 to 1962. He was ambassador 1963 to 1968, and was the French

ambassador to NATO from

1969 to 1970. He was ambassador to the United Nations from 1970 to 1972, and French

ambassador to the United States from 1972 to 1977. He retired from the diplomatic corps in 1978. Afterwards

Kosciusko became involved in local French politics. He was the national

secretary for foreign relations of the Rally for the Republic party from 1983 to 1988, and was

mayor until his death in Paris in 1994.