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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.
