{{Short description|French diplomat (1908–1985)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Maurice Couve de Murville and Roger Seydoux.jpg | birth_date = 28 March 1908 | birth_place = Paris | death_date = 3 July 1985 | death_place = Paris | caption = Seydoux (left) in 1967 }} '''Roger Seydoux''' (28 March 1908 in Paris<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXcOAQAAMAAJ&q=Roger+Seydoux+28+mars+1908|title = Biographies de personnalités françaises vivantes|year = 1967}}</ref> – 3 July 1985 in Paris)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.koechlin.net/index.php/fr/genealogie-koechlin/genealogie-actuelle/koechlin-genealogie-recherche/jt-0-a-1/1!I10239 |title=Roger SEYDOUX |access-date=29 May 2018 |archive-date=29 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529203434/http://www.koechlin.net/index.php/fr/genealogie-koechlin/genealogie-actuelle/koechlin-genealogie-recherche/jt-0-a-1/1!I10239 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a French academic and diplomat.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/18/us/roger-seydoux-french-diplomat-dies-at-77.html|title=ROGER SEYDOUX, FRENCH DIPLOMAT, DIES AT 77|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|date=July 18, 1985|work=The New York Times|accessdate=29 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="AP">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19850710&id=7m5IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ilkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2310,2212115|title=Roger Seydoux, former French ambassador|last=Associated Press|author-link=Associated Press|date=July 10, 1985|publisher=The Evening Independent|accessdate=29 August 2012}}</ref>
==Main diplomatic assignments== * Last Resident-general in Tunisia<ref name="SHT">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19550914&id=5CEhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7GQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1621,2407512|title=Bey of Tunis Said Ready to Name Prime Minister|last=Associated Press|author-link=Associated Press|date=14 September 1955|publisher=Sarasota Herald Tribune|accessdate=29 August 2012}}</ref> * First ambassador to Tunisia (1956)<ref name="SHT"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ambassadefrance-tn.org/Les-ambassadeurs-de-France-en|title=Les ambassadeurs de France en Tunisie|publisher=Embassy of France in Tunis|language=French|accessdate=29 August 2012|archive-date=8 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108084456/http://www.ambassadefrance-tn.org/Les-ambassadeurs-de-France-en|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Ambassador to Morocco (1960–1962)<ref>{{in lang|fr}} See official JORF announcements in [http://legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000670887 September 1960] and [http://legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000673793 June 1962]</ref> * Permanent representative to the United Nations (1962–1967)<ref name="AP"/> * Permanent representative to NATO (1967–1968)<ref name="AP"/> * Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1968–1972)<ref name="AP"/>
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