Jacques de Sieyes

{{Short description|Legion of honor decorated captain}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Jacques Edouard de Plan de Sieyes de Veynes

| birth_place = Nogent-sur-Marne, France

| birth_date = 21 July 1891

| death_date = {{d-da|25 June 1949|21 July 1891}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| occupation = {{hlist|Captain}}}}

Jacques Edouard de Plan de Sieyes de Veynes (21 July 1891 — 25 June 1949) was a Legion of honor decorated captain who acted for de Gaulle against Vichy.

His parents were Raoul de Plan de Sieyès de Veynes (1848 - 1944), lawyer, Joan of Indy (1856 - 1943).{{Cite web |title=Jacques Edouard de Plan de Siéyès de Veynes - Les Français Libres |url=http://www.francaislibres.net/liste/fiche.php?index=96395 |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.francaislibres.net}}

De Sieyes was a classmate of de Gaulle at the military academy École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr.{{Cite book |last1=d'Hauterive |first1=André François Joseph Borel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ES8zAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA228 |title=Annuaire de la pairie et de la noblesse de France, des maisons souveraines de l'Europe et de la diplomatie |last2=Révérend |first2=vicomte Albert |last3=d') |first3=Howard Horace Angerville (comte |date=1909 |page=228 |language=fr}}{{Cite book |last=guerre |first=France Ministère de la |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZ8cAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA423 |title=Annuaire officiel des officiers de l'armée active |date=1911 |page=423 |language=fr}} In WWI he was "wounded three times and cited for bravery while serving in the French artillery and air force."{{Cite book |last=LLC |first=New York Media |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oeICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60 |title=New York Magazine |date=1983-10-17 |publisher=New York Media, LLC |pages=60–62|language=en}}

On 9 May 1917 he married Louise Hamilton-Paine (1893-1972) in Cap-d'Ail.

He was a flight captain and attaché of French Embassy in Washington,{{Cite book |last=étrangères |first=Ministère des Affaires |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzCXxI0GytgC&pg=PA840 |title=Documents Diplomatiques Francais: 1921 Tome II (1 Er Juillet - 31 Dec.) |date=2005 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-90-5201-243-8 |page=840|language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Jacques Edouard de Plan de Sieyès de Veynes (1891 - 1949) |url=https://man8rove.com/fr/profile/pdpnzfkvb-jacques-edouard-de-plan-de-sieyes-de-veynes |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=man8rove.com}} and president of Patou (perfume) from July 1940{{Cite book |last1=Happe |first1=Katja |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2VUEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA595 |title=Western and Northern Europe 1940–June 1942 |last2=Mayer |first2=Michael |last3=Peers |first3=Maja |date=2021-12-31 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-068769-9 |page=595 |language=en}} before quitting, giving his time to help de Gaulle.

De Sieyes was a founding member{{Cite magazine |date=1941-03-10 |title=FRANCE: Troubled Exiles |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,790027-4,00.html |access-date=2022-09-30 |issn=0040-781X}}{{Cite book |last=Hopkins |first=John Appleton Haven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkCsAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Sieyes%22 |title=Diary of World Events, Being a Chronological Record of the Second World War Photographically Reproduced from the American and Foreign Newspapers Despatches as Reported Day by Day, Including Maps, Pictures, Cartoons, Anecdotes, Official Messages, Reports and Declarations, and Congressional Acts ... |date=1942 |publisher=National advertising Company |page=1095 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Congress |first=United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qdmt1fGg1Y4C&pg=SL1-PA344 |title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress |date=1941 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=344 |language=en}}A Nation-Wide Organization, Maison Francaise. (PDF){{Cite web |date=2009-11-10 |title=Le comité de la France Libre des États-Unis - Fondation de la France Libre |url=https://www.france-libre.net/comite-fl-usa/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |language=fr-FR}} of France Forever on 29 June 1940.

In September 1940, the Fighting French Committee of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, was established "by Mrs. Eugene Houdry, Mrs. Pierre Quilleret, Mr. Jacques de Sieyès, then delegate of General de Gaulle and Dr. Albert Simard to support and encourage the thousands of young Frenchmen and women serving in England with the British forces."{{Cite book |last=Inc |first=France Forever |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDkpAQAAMAAJ&q=%22delegate%20of%20General%20de%20Gaulle%22 |title=Year Book |date=1943 |page=116 |language=en}}

In February 1941, as representative in the US of the Free French forces, de Sieyes left to meet de Gaulle.{{Cite news |date=1941-02-20 |title=AIDE IN U.S. LEAVES TO MEET DE GAULLE; Count de Sieyes Will Discuss How 'Free France' May Best Be Served Here |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/02/20/archives/aide-in-us-leaves-to-meet-de-gaulle-count-de-sieyes-will-discuss.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |issn=0362-4331}}

In London, he announced: "The French people are not only starving, but absolutely ready for revolt — if they had the means to carry it out."

After the war, de Gaulle appointed de Sieyes to an ambassadorial post.

De Sieyes died by drowning in June 1949.{{Cite news |date=1949-06-27 |title=LE CORPS de M. de Plan de Siéyès de Veynes ancien ministre de France à La Paz est retiré de la Seine |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1949/06/27/le-corps-de-m-de-plan-de-sieyes-de-veynes-ancien-ministre-de-france-a-la-paz-est-retire-de-la-seine_1919114_1819218.html |access-date=2022-10-06}}