Career
Barthou served as Foreign Minister in 1934. He was the primary figure behind the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance of 1935, though it was signed by his successor, Pierre Laval. As a national WWI hero and a recognized author, Barthou was elected to the Académie française at the end of WWI.
In 1934 Barthou tried to create an Eastern Pact that should include Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Baltic states on the basis of a guarantee by France of the European borders of the Soviet Union and the eastern borders of Germany by the Soviet Union. He succeeded in obtaining entry of the Soviet Union into the League of nations in September 1934.
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