Paul Morand, un ministre «d’élite»
Paul Morand, an "elite" minister

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes to analyze the mission of French Diplomat Paul Morand to Bucharest (August 28, 1943 - May 17, 1944). The approach is of particular interest because we are dealing with a famous writer, a writer-diplomat who previously knew Romania, a country to which he dedicated a book in 1935, being also married to a Romanian princess. One could ask what reasoning lies behind this decision of the Vichy government to sent Morand to Bucharest in the summer of the 1943. However, Morand's arrival in Bucharest was not well received by the members of the French diplomatic corps, neither by the foreign diplomats at post in Bucharest, nor by the Romanian high society. His pro-German political orientation was an impediment for his mission in Bucharest. It remains to be seen whether the top writer that was Paul Morand failed as diplomat in Bucharest like Minister Rene de Weck used to claim, or his mission was useful for French-Romanian diplomatic relations.

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