18: François Marie Denis Georges-Picot

François Marie Denis Georges-Picot (Paris, 21 December 1870 – Paris, 20 June 1951), son of historian Georges Picot and grand-uncle of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, was a French diplomat who signed the Sykes–Picot Agreement during World War I, with the Englishman, Sir Mark Sykes, dividing up the Ottoman Empire into British, French and, later, Russian and Italian spheres of influence. He was responsible along with Sykes for the annexation of Arab lands and their incorporation into British and French empires.
Married in Paris on 11 May 1897 to Marie Fouquet, born at Maisons-Laffitte on 13 August 1873. They had three children:

Jean Georges-Picot (b. Paris, 26 February 1898)
Élisabeth Georges-Picot (b. Paris, 27 February 1901 - 1906)
Sibylle Georges-Picot (b. Paris, 23 June 1903), married in Paris on 4 May 1926 with Georges Lewandowski, and had issue

Georges Marie René Picot (French: [piko]; December 24, 1838 – August 16, 1909) was a French lawyer and historian.
Born in Paris, son of Charles Picot (Orléans, August 4, 1795 – Paris, January 31, 1870) and his wife Henriette Bidois (Paris, 1799 – Paris, November 19, 1862), his main work is Histoire des États généraux for which he twice gained the prize of the French Academy in 1873 and 1874. In 1904, his biography of Gladstone was published.
He married in Saint-Bouize on June 19, 1865 with Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet (Paris, October 9, 1844 – Paris, August 2, 1914), daughter of Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet and a great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769), and by whom he had seven children, the third of which was the diplomat François Georges-Picot, and the fifth, a daughter, was the maternal grandmother of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.^[1]
He died in Allevard-les-Bains.