On the occasion of shedding light on some historical information, we will talk about the family of Mr. Picot

The owners of the famous Sykes-Picot agreement

Without reference to the origins of this family since the Middle Ages, we will begin with the head of the family, the name holder who moved to his family, Mr. George Pico "who was born in 1838 and died in 1909. This George Pico was known as the greatest historian and jurist at the same time. And was able to record the political history of the French Revolution period, he was honored to be appointed for life in the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and is known to have been closely related to the President of the French Republic, "Emile Loube," who was complaining about the control of the Muslim Brotherhood groups on the French policy, To the extent that his decision as President of the Republic was ignored (Pico K To meet the president's complaints to connect the Masons, where he was expected to have a connection with them, in a personal and influential)

He married his son, France's interior minister, and had seven children.

Then he was the father of the children. The eldest son, Charles, was the chief inspector of the Ministry of Finance and head of the Industrial and Commercial Bank. He was the head of the French banking clearing house and thus had the upper hand over France's financial affairs.

The second son, François, who was a famous lawyer and diplomat, moved to represent France as ambassador in several embassies (Denmark, China, Lebanon) and then came to Cairo where his relations with the Maronite community grew during the First World War . Francois Picot was a member of the French colonial party and he advocated annexation of the Levant to France as a purely French province whose borders were from Iskenderun to the north to Sinai to the south and from Mosul east to the Mediterranean to the west. It was, of course, during the First World War from the beginning of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire that the secret agreement "Sykes Pico" was drawn up and signed in 1916, which was revealed only in 1918 by the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. From his descendants, the father of former French president "Giscard d'Estaing"

We will also mention Geom Pico, who was a diplomat, the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations from 52 to 59, and France's delegate to the Security Council from 56 to 59, especially during the period of the tripartite aggression.

Finally, we will mention one of the important sons: Mr. Jacques Pico, a public financial inspector, as head of some banks, such as his older sister, then general manager of the Suez Canal International Company during the nationalization period and chairman of the financial company that was established after nationalization. In addition to compensation funds

By the way, they also had a sister, "Leon Pico", who served as the special secretary of the French President "Mendes France" in the period witnessed the triple aggression on Egypt.

All members of the Pico family were in sensitive positions and played many important roles in the era of the prosperity of French colonial thought. This was especially evident in the memoirs of Jacques Georges Pico, some of whom called the family the name of the colonial family for his experience in the management of the Agelsuis channel and attempts to internationalize the channel to avoid To return to Egypt after the end of excellence, I do not think that there is a so-called imperial family, but it is a French national family in the concept of that era, France's interests were opposed to the national interests of the countries of the Middle East and Africa. But it is certainly a family of influence Masonry may be one of the tools to maintain its influence and George to be proud of his children .. We can criticize the history of this family, which contributed to the occupation and looting the wealth of our country. After talking about the history and origins of Mr. Picot's family, who signed the famous Sykes-Picot agreement a hundred years ago ... What about Mr. Sykes? He was born in 1879 and died in 1919 in Paris, France. His age at the time of signing the famous agreement was not more than 37 years old. Mark Sykes was known as an adventurer who toured the countries of the Middle East and Asia Minor and as a result of his family relations During World War I, he was appointed to the British Ministry of Defense Secretariat as a military attaché in the Kurdistan region where his contacts were saturated with the families of that region. Mr. Sykes had no need to consult with the British Ministry of Defense, who had given Mr. Pico the green light to study and propose what he wanted. But Pico was able to convince Sykes to keep his secret Agreement document.

Sykes died in Paris immediately after the end of the war as a result of influenza and did not have any political impact after this agreement, which formed the map of the Middle East in a century ... But

Surprisingly, he came to us 90 years after his death, a few years ago in 2008, when medical and scientific bodies requested the exhumation of his body from his burial site with the consent of the rest of his family. Mr. Sykes died of a flu similar to avian influenza and since his body was placed in an arched, isolated, bullet-proof coffin to prevent the spread of the epidemic, scientists have predicted the presence of live remains of the 1918 pandemic virus that killed hundreds of thousands of people and that helps them in the search for vaccination Effective.

And when access to the site of the coffin buried in great depth, it turned out that it has collapsed and broken by the weight of education above and failed to try to benefit from the death of Mr. Sykes influenza and so passes through the history of some people can not only put their fingerprints on the tragedies of the world.