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Charge d'affaires   Listen
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Charge d'affaires  n.  (pl. chargés d'affaires)  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.






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"Charge d'affaires" Quotes from Famous Books



... be carried on more promptly through the Danish legation at Washington, I addressed a letter on the 20th of April to Mr. Steene-Bille, Charge d'Affaires of the king of Denmark in this country, and sent with it copies of the documents which had been forwarded to Professor Schumacher. Mr. Steene-Bille, however, was of opinion that the application, if made at all, should be made through ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell

... provide for the two thousand crowns per annum provided by the Government are quite insufficient. My old father has succeeded in persuading the State to discharge my husband's debts, but to make up the extra expense they will not employ a Charge d'affaires; a banker with the title of agent will collect the interest ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... ignorance and inexperience—a charm of manner, intonation, apparently native and unstudied elocution, and all that—the groundwork of it native, the ease of it, the polish of it, the winning naturalness of it, acquired in Europe where he had been Charge d'Affaires some time at the Court of Vienna. He was joyous and cordial, a most pleasant comrade. One of the two incidents above referred to as ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain

... visit them next day, with friendly proffers of service, and likewise the ambassador of Venice and the charge d'affaires of Great Britain. ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... at least, of the Maid's Tragedy;—and an eminent living critic,—who in the manly wit, strong sterling sense, and robust style of his original works, had presented the best possible credentials of office as 'charge d'affaires' of literature in general,—and who by his edition of Massinger—a work in which there was more for an editor to do, and in which more was actually well done, than in any similar work within my knowledge—has proved an especial right of authority ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge

... President of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. He served, moreover, as Inspector-General of the Bureau of Freedmen, a member of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia, Minister resident and Consul-General to Haiti, and Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo. His election to Congress, therefore, was the crowning achievement of a lifelong ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various



Words linked to "Charge d'affaires" :   diplomatist, diplomat



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