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{{Short description|French politician (1857–1933)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Stephen Pichon
| image = Stephen Pichon (portrait de 1906 par Eugène Pirou).jpg
| caption =

| office1 = French Minister to China
| term_start1 = 1897
| term_end1 = 1900
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =

| office2 = Resident-General of the Tunisian Protectorate
| term_start2 = 1901
| term_end2 = 1906
| predecessor2 =[[Georges Benoit (diplomat)|Georges Benoit]].
| successor2 = [[Gabriel Alapetite]]

| office3 = [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (France)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
| term_start3 = 1906
| term_end3 = 1911
| predecessor3 = [[Léon Bourgeois]]
| successor3 =[[Jean Cruppi]]

| term_start4 = 1913
| term_end4 = 1913
| predecessor4 = [[Charles Jonnart]]
| successor4 =[[Gaston Doumergue]]

| term_start5 = 1917
| term_end5 = 1920
| predecessor5 =[[Louis Barthou]]
| successor5 =[[Alexandre Millerand]]

| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1857|08|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Arnay-le-Duc]], Côte-d'Or, [[Second French Empire|France]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|09|18|1857|08|10|df=y}}
| death_place =  [[Vers-en-Montagne]], Jura, [[French Third Republic|France]]
| nationality = French
| other_names =
| occupation = Politician
| signature = Signature Stephen Pichon.png
| known_for =
}}

'''Stephen Jean-Marie Pichon''' (10 August 1857 – 18 September 1933, [[Vers-en-Montagne]]) was a French journalist, diplomat and politician of the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]]. The [[:fr: Avenue Stéphen-Pichon|Avenue Stéphen-Pichon]] in Paris is named after him.

==Life==

Stephen Jean-Marie Pichon was born on 10 August 1857 in [[Arnay-le-Duc]], Côte-d'Or.

He served as French Minister to China (1897–1900), including the period of the [[Boxer Uprising]].<ref>{{cite web|last=OpenLibrary.org|title=The Boxer Rebellion (June 1, 2000 edition) {{!}} Open Library|url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2098735W/The_boxer_rebellion|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Open Library|pages=50–51, 59|language=en}}</ref>
Stephen Pichon was appointed [[Resident General of France in Tunisia|Resident-General of the Tunisian Protectorate]] in 1901, replacing [[Georges Benoit (diplomat)|Georges Benoit]].
In 1906 he was succeeded by [[Gabriel Alapetite]].<ref name="Perkins2016">{{citation|last=Perkins|first=Kenneth J.|title=Historical Dictionary of Tunisia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIMRDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA281|access-date=2017-09-26|date=2016-10-12|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-7318-4|pages=281–}}</ref>

An associate of [[Georges Clemenceau]], he served several times under Clemenceau and others as [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (France)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]. Stephen Pichon in Paris managed the French agreement with transformation of Czechoslovak National Council to the Provisional Czechoslovak government on 26 September 1918 (when [[Edvard Beneš]] received confirmation of [[Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk]] from Washington).<ref>PRECLÍK, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (Masaryk and legions), váz. kniha, 219 str., vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina, Czech Republic) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague), 2019, {{ISBN|978-80-87173-47-3}}, pp. 87 - 89, 110 - 112, 124 - 128,140 - 148,184 - 190</ref>

His most notable service was under Clemenceau during the latter part of the [[First World War]] and the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]] of 1919, but, like most of the other foreign ministers at the conference, Pichon was largely sidelined by the more forceful figure of his head of government.

Stephen Pichon died on 18 September 1933 in [[Vers-en-Montagne]], Jura.

==Honours==

*Knight of the [[Legion of Honour]] 31 October 1895 
*Officer of the [[Legion of Honour]] 8 April 1898
*Commander of the [[Legion of Honour]] 14 August 1900.<ref>Le dossier de Stephen Pichon est sur [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH180/PG/FRDAFAN83_OL2148038V001.htm la base LEONORE du ministère de la Culture].</ref>
*The Avenue Stéphen-Pichon in the [[13th arrondissement of Paris]], near the Place d'Italie, was named in his honour in 1934.
* A school in [[Bizerta]] in Tunisia has his name

== Publications ==
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* Articles et chroniques parlementaires dans ''[[La Justice (journal)|La Justice]]''
* Écrits de publiciste dans ''[[Le Petit Journal (quotidien)|Le Petit Journal]]''
* ''La diplomatie de l’Église sous la IIIe République'', édition O. Doin, 1892, 78 pages
* ''Rétablissement des relations diplomatiques entre la France et la République dominicaine,'' 1894
* ''Traité d'arbitrage pour la délimitation de la Guyane française,'' 1897
* ''Les derniers jours de Pékin'' par [[Pierre Loti]], précédé de ''La Ville en flammes'' par Stephen Pichon, et ''la Défense de la légation de France'' par [[Eugène Darcy]], 1902
* ''Dans la Bataille'', essai biographique, édition A. Méricant, 1908, 314 pages 
* ''La Guerre et les neutres'' par René Moulin, préface de Stephen Pichon, 1915
* Manuscrits et correspondances, [http://www.archivistes.org/Manuscrits-de-la-bibliotheque-de-l manuscrits] de la bibliothèque de l'[[Institut de France]], et de la [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] ([http://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&startRecord=0&maximumRecords=15&page=1&query=%28gallica%20all%20%22stephen%20pichon%22%29 données Gallica]).
*Introduction to {{cite book|first=Nahum|last=Sokolow|title=History of Zionism: 1600–1918|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32242|publisher=Longmans, Green & Co., London|date=1919}}
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==References==
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