Born February 7 1918, Tunis. Died in Nice on July 17 1997.
Professional career
- 1948 : Doctor of Law, University of Paris
- 1950 : Professor of Law at the Universities of Algiers, Aix-en-Provence, Nice and Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- Honorary Dean of the Institut du Droit de la Paix et du Développement at the University of Nice
- 1966-1984 : Secretary General of The Hague Academy of International Law
- 1967 : Member of the Institute of International Law
- Member of the European Commission of Human Rights (Council of Europe 1974-1981)
- 1979-1989 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of International Law
- 1985 : Member of the Academy's Curatorium
- 1990-1997 : Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
Learned societies and academies
- Member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Institut de France
- Member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco
- Corresponding member of the Academy of Athens
- Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain
- Corresponding member of the Académie d'Aix-en-Provence
- Honorary President of the French Society for International Law
- Chairman of the Board of the Centre International de Formation Européenne
- President of the Académie de la Paix et de la Sécurité Internationale
- President of the Belgian-Dutch Arbitral Tribunal for the Meuse and Scheldt Rivers
Awards and distinctions
- Commander of the Légion d'Honneur
- Commander of the National Order of Merit
- Commandeur des Palmes Académiques
- Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands)
- Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great
- Commander of the Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco)
- Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
- Commander of the Order of Saint Charles (Monaco)
- Grand Cross of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- Grand Cross of the Order of José Cecilio del Valle (Honduras)
- Officer of the National Order of Mali
- Bronze Star Medal (U.S. Army, 1944)
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the Johannes Gutemberg Universität, Mainz
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Montréal
