François Georges-Barb , born on December 21st, 1870 and deceased on June 20th, 1951, is a diplomat French, wire of the historian Georges Picot.

It is named French Consul to Beirut little before the First World War. During the release of the war, it goes to the Cairo from where it maintains the relations with the Maronite S of the Lebanon. In spring 1915, it is destined for Paris by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Member of the French colonial Party, it is a partisan of the “integral Syria” under French mandate (of Alexandrette to the the Sinai, and of Mosul to the Mediterranean coastline). He signs for France the Accord Sykes-Barb with the Great Britain, dividing the remainders of the Ottoman Empire between the western powers.

In 1897, it marries Marie Fouquet (born on August 13rd, 1873), of which it has three children. He is also the great-uncle of the French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing.

Sources

• Vincent Cloarec and Henry Laurens (to dir.), the Middle East at the 20th century , Armand Colin, Paris, 2003, pp. 218-219.