René Doynel de Saint-Quentin [SEP] place of death
René Doynel de Saint-Quentin
René Doynel de Saint-Quentin (2 December 1883 Garcelles-Secqueville - 15 March 1961 Paris) was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1938 to 1940.
Early life.
His parents were Jeanne Marie Adélaïde Liégeard, and Louis Eugène Jules Doynel Count de Saint-Quentin (14 October 1850 - 18 April 1928). His maternal grandfather was the poet Stephen Liégeard. His cousin was the aviator Georges Guynemer.
De Saint-Quentin graduated from
who had received an honorary degree from Brown in 1776, by the First Light Infantry Regiment of Rhode Island.
During early 20th-century renovations, when the modern cupola was removed, remnants of the eight-sided original cupola were revealed, with the names of two former students and their classes, "Amos Hopkins 1792" and "Henry D'Wolfe 1803," carved on one of its uprights.
At the rededication of University Hall on May 4, 1940, French ambassador Comte René Doynel de Saint-Quentin and