Léon Geoffray

Geoffray was appointed Senior Advisor to the embassy in London in 1895, with the rank of first class secretary, and minister plenipotentiary in 1896.

He became passionately committed to healing Anglo-French relations and desired to achieve an alliance between England and France.

Geoffray was Consul General in Cairo from 1908 to 1910, and in July 1910 Ambassador of France to Madrid, remaining in Spain until dismissed in October 1917.

He was the owner of the castle of Vaulx (17th century) in Saint-Julien-de-Civry, Saône-et-Loire, and instructed the landscaper Achille Duchêne to develop the park in 1900.

[6] and Edward VII created him an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.