After holding various posts in Europe and America, M. Cosme for several years headed in Paris the Department of America and later, with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary 2nd Class, the Department of Asia at the Quai d'Orsay. He was promoted to the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary 151 Class in May, 1936, and appointed to Athens at the end of that year.
M. Cosme served brilliantly in the French ranks during the Great War and was awarded the Medaille Mili-faire in 1916 after having made good a most dangerous escape from a camp of prisoners in Germany. He also holds the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour.—Havas.
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