Count Stanislas Marie Joseph Antoine Ostroróg (20 May 1897 – 27 September 1960) was a French diplomat from a noble Polish family,[1] serving in several Asian countries over the course of his career.

[9] He was involved in returning the remains of Irish poet William Butler Yeats from France to Ireland in 1948; in a letter to the European director of the Foreign Ministry in Paris "Ostrorog tells how Yeats’s son Michael sought official help in locating the poet’s remains.

Neither Michael Yeats nor Seán MacBride, the Irish foreign minister who organised the ceremony, wanted to know the details of how the remains were collected, Ostrorog notes.

The French Foreign Ministry authorized Ostrorog to secretly cover the cost of repatriation from his slush fund.

Authorities were worried about the fact that the much-loved poet's remains were thrown into a communal grave, causing embarrassment for both Ireland and France.

[15] In 1960, he was recalled to Paris by minister Maurice Couve de Murville; working in the offices of the Quai d'Orsay, he was felled by a cerebral haemorrhage.