Jacques Truelle

Jacques Truelle entered diplomacy after losing a leg from wounds sustained in 1914. He studied at the École libre des sciences politiques and served in Rome, London, and the foreign ministry's American section. He also belonged to a literary circle that included Marcel Proust and Paul Morand. ¹

As chargé d'affaires in Washington, Truelle dealt with France's attempts to revise foreign privileges in Morocco. In August 1938 he transmitted a new Anglo-French commercial treaty and asked the United States to negotiate comparable agreements on trade and the abolition of capitulatory rights. He continued work begun by Jules Henry. ²

Truelle subsequently represented Vichy in Bucharest. In 1943 he left that service, traveled through Istanbul and Beirut to Algiers, and joined the French Committee of National Liberation. He became its delegate in Madrid later that year and died there in 1945. ¹