Adrien Thierry

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Adrien Joseph Marie Hilaire Thierry (4 January 1885 – 26 January 1961) was a French lawyer and diplomat. He was born in Marseille into a family of diplomats and studied law at the École des sciences politiques. He began working for the French Foreign Ministry, serving at the Paris office and then at the French Embassy in London, where he spent many years and grew fond of Britain.

Thierry was the French envoy to Greece until 1938. From 1936 to 1940, he was the French Ambassador to Romania in Bucharest, succeeding André d’Ormesson. In June 1940, he fled to Spain in a caravan with notable figures including Empress Zita.

After World War II, he served on the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine until his death in 1961. He married Nadine de Rothschild in 1919, and they had three children. Nadine died in 1958. Adrien Thierry died in Neuilly-sur-Seine and was buried in Cannes.