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Was a Polish noble, diplomat and politician.He was the representative of the Polish king Stanislaw A

Was a Polish noble, diplomat and politician.He was the representative of the Polish king Stanislaw August Poniatowski to the Russian court, from 1767 to 1795.

Is the ombudsman and Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia. He took office on February 20

Is the ombudsman and Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia. He took office on February 20, 2006

Was a French aristocrat and politician. A deputy to the Legislative Assembly in 1791, elected by the

Was a French aristocrat and politician. A deputy to the Legislative Assembly in 1791, elected by the départment of Seine-et-Marne, he generally voted with the minority. As his views came to be considered too moderate by his colleagues, he resigned in 1792, and was soon after arrested on suspicion of being a reactionary. Madame de Staël obtained his release from Louis Pierre Manuel just before the September Massacres. He subsequently accompanied Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord on his mission to the Kingdom of Great Britain, returning to France after the execution of King Louis XVI.

Was a French diplomat and writer, and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, whose personal tact a

Was a French diplomat and writer, and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, whose personal tact and diplomatic skill steered the perilous course of French diplomacy with the Papacy in the reign of Henry IV of France.[1]

A former Indian diplomat. She was India's permanent representative to the United Nations during the

A former Indian diplomat. She was India's permanent representative to the United Nations during the 1990s under the IK Gujral government in 1996. She is most famous for heading the Indian contingent that vetoed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in 1996.[1]

Was an Indian independence fighter and noted Indian lawyer. He was the first ambassador from India t

Was an Indian independence fighter and noted Indian lawyer. He was the first ambassador from India to the United States. He also worked as the governor of Orissa.Educated in the St. Stephen's College, Delhi and called to bar from Lincoln's Inn in England, he entered the Indian independence movement and was imprisoned many times. In 1928, he married Aruna Ganguli, a marriage that raised eyebrows on the grounds of religion (Asaf Ali was a Muslim while Aruna was a Hindu) and age difference (Aruna was 22 years junior to him). He was elected in 1935 as a member of the Central Legislative Assembly from Delhi representing the Muslim Nationalist Party. He was re-elected as a Congress candidate against a Muslim League candidate. He worked as Deputy Leader of the Congress Party in the Assembly. In 1945, Ali came to be the convenor of the INA defence team established by the Congress for the defence of the officers of the INA charged with treason later in November 1945.

Was a Saxonian diplomat. He was Saxonian representative to Poland, residing in Gdansk (Danzig) from

Was a Saxonian diplomat. He was Saxonian representative to Poland, residing in Gdansk (Danzig) from 1761 to 1764, and then in Warsaw.

Was an Argentine writer and diplomat, son of printer Julio Belin and Ana Faustina Sarmiento, daughte

Was an Argentine writer and diplomat, son of printer Julio Belin and Ana Faustina Sarmiento, daughter of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.Belin was born in Chile and accompanied his maternal grandfather on his travels to Lima and Washington, D.C. and indeed studied at West Point Military Academy. Along his travels he ended up in Paris in 1870 and fought as a volunteer soldier.He began his career as a collaborator at XIXme. Siècle on Argentine matters. Upon returning home to Argentina, he was employed by the National Senate as translator of Wilson Book Review Digest in 1877, charged with managing the Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros where he created an inventory, finding 8,733 copies in the archive and 39,152 in the deposit.

Was an American conchologist.As a conchologist his reputation was worldwide, and he was one of the p

Was an American conchologist.As a conchologist his reputation was worldwide, and he was one of the pioneers of the science in America. His writings fill many pages of the publications of the Boston Society of Natural History (see vol. xi. p. 197 for a lis