François Georges-Picot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French diplomat who signed Sykes-Picot Agreement during World War I
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About François Georges-Picot
- François Marie Denis Georges-Picot (21 December 1870 – 20 June 1951) was a French diplomat and lawyer who negotiated the Sykes–Picot Agreement with the English diplomat Sir Mark Sykes between November 1915 and March 1916 before its signing on May 16, 1916.
- It was a secret deal which proposed that, when the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire began after a then theoretical victory of the Triple Entente, Britain and France, and later Russia and Italy, would divide up the Arab territories between them.
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