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Title: Gaston Bergery Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1909-1973
Collection number: 77069
Creator:
Bergery, Gaston, 1892-
Collection Size:
44 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope
(18.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, telegrams, reports, memoranda, lists, speeches and writings, and leaflets, relating to French political events
and foreign relations, France during World War II, and the Front Populaire.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language: Mainly in
French.
Collection open for research.
For copyright status, please contact
the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Gaston Bergery Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Inter-Allied Commission for Reparations.
Inter-Allied Conference on Reparations and Inter-Allied Debts (1924 : London)
Communism.
Communism--France.
Elections--France.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918--Reparations.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--France.
Europe.
Europe--Politics and government--1918-1945.
France.
France--Colonies.
France--Foreign relations.
France--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
France--Foreign relations--United States.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
France--Politics and government--20th century.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--France.
United States.
United States--Foreign relations--France.
Diplomats--France.
| 1892, November 22 | Born in Paris, France |
| 1912 | Received bachelor's degree in law |
| 1914 | Enlisted; wounded in 1915 |
| 1916 | Liaison with the British Army |
| 1917 | Decorated with the Military Cross for distinguished services |
| 1918 | Attached to the Secretariat of the Versailles Peace Conference |
| 1918-1924 | Deputy Secretary-General of the Inter-Allied Commission for Reparations |
| 1920 | Married Germaine Malançon |
| 1924 | Decorated with the Legion of Honor |
| 1924 | Delegate to the London Conference |
| 1924-1925 | Director of the Cabinet of Edouard Herriot, Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 1925 | In charge of a mission to the United States |
| 1926 | Attorney, Court of Appeals, Paris (specialized in private international law) |
| 1927 | Married Lubov Krassin; son Jean-François raised by her in London after she and Bergery divorced in 1928 |
| 1928 | Founded the daily Mantes Republicain |
| 1928-1934 | Deputy of the Seine-et-Oise (radical-socialist party); Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs |
| 1935-1939 | Founded and directed the weekly La Flèche |
| 1936-1942 | Deputy ( frontiste party, which he founded with Jacques Izard) |
| 1934 | Married Elisabeth (Bettina) Shaw-Jones |
| 1937 | Author, Air-Afrique, Voie Impériale |
| 1938 | Author, Notre Plan, Principes de l'Economie Frontiste |
| 1940, November | Sent on a mission to Switzerland by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1941, April-June | Ambassador to the Soviet Union |
| 1942, June-1944, September | Ambassador to Turkey |
| 1945 | Returned voluntarily to France; Tried, Court of Justice, Paris - Acquitted in 1949 |
| 1947 | Resumed legal career |
| 1948 | Author, La Vierge et le Sagittaire (under the pseudonym of Gaston François) |
| 1957-1958 | Columnist for the daily Paris-Presse l'Intransigeant ( Libre Chronique Diplomatique) |
| 1969 | Retired |
| 1974 | Died |
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, telegrams, reports, memoranda, lists, speeches and writings, and leaflets, relating to French political events
and foreign relations, France during World War II, and the Front Populaire.