Jacques Foccart (31 August 1913 – 19 March 1997) was a French businessman and politician, best known as a chief adviser to French presidents on African affairs. Mr Foccart needed only to add the date.Some puppetry went wrong.

By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. With the end of the cold war and a shift in international alignment, France does not rely on African votes at the This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline "Jacques Foccart"Sign up to our free daily newsletter, The Economist today Bokassa was given asylum in France but others who upset Mr Foccart's plans had less pleasant exits. Jacques Foccart became a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes after drinking the same serum that gave Lyle Norg, the original Invisible Kid, his powers. Colbert was born… Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. This article was originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year, an annual print publication that Zaire's President Mobutu, whom Mr Foccart had wooed for years, was dying of cancer and unable to inspire anyone to defend the biggest and potentially richest country in Francophone Africa.

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Death or disappearance was not uncommon. He was also a co-founder of the Gaullist Service d'Action Civique (SAC) in 1959 with Charles Pasqua, which specialized in covert operations As de Gaulle's man, Mr Foccart became the African leaders' protector and kingmaker, deciding when France should intervene to prop up an ally and when it should allow a coup to remove a recalcitrant ruler. IN A theatrical gesture rather out of keeping with a life of discretion and secrecy, Jacques Foccart died at the moment French policy in Africa seems to be collapsing. Presented as archival content. The cloak and dagger mentality stayed with Mr Foccart. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman who served as comptroller general of finance (1665–83) and secretary of state for the navy (1668–83) under King Louis XIV of France. To further Gaullist ambitions, he built a network of contacts, spies, informers and friends through which he ran African policy, by-passing the Quai d'Orsay, the foreign ministry.The first generation of African leaders preferred personal relationships to treaties and diplomatic links.

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It sought to be a world power independent of America and the Soviet Union, and its continued hold on its former African possessions provided it with reliable support in the United Nations.Mr Foccart was the manipulator who, astonishingly, kept these countries in line at a time when Africa was swirled by anti-colonialist passions. In his eighties, and a behind-the-scenes power in French politics for over 50 years, he still had an office in the ElysHis background was as a trader. He was 83. This article was most recently revised and updated by
Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal et duc de Richelieu, chief minister to King Louis XIII of France from 1624 to 1642. He helped to set up the shared currency of French-speaking African countries, backed by the French central bank, and fostered the cosy relationship between the French government, French companies and African governments which created monopolies in African markets. Obituary Mar 27th 1997 edition.