In July 1939, Ribbentrop's claims about Bonnet's alleged statement of December 1938 were to lead to a lengthy war of words via a series of letters to the French newspapers between Bonnet and Ribbentrop over just what precisely Bonnet had said to Ribbentrop.

In the spring and summer of 1939, Ribbentrop used Bonnet's alleged statement to convince Hitler that France would not go to war in the defence of Poland, despite the frequent denials by Bonnet that he ever made such a statement ( which would not have been legally binding even had Bonnet had made the alleged statement ; only a formal renunciation of the Franco-Polish treaty by the French National Assembly would end the French commitment to Poland ).

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

Ribbentrop was to use Bonnet's alleged statement to convince Hitler that France would not go to war in the defence of Poland in 1939.

Ribbentrop told Coulondre that because of Bonnet's alleged statement of 6 December 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as Germany's zone of influence meant that " France's commitments in Eastern Europe " were now " off limits ".

Bonnet's statement was to lead the British government into considering the idea of making a " guarantee " of Polish independence as the best way of securing Polish support for Romania.

Six years later, in October 1769, Lavater sent Mendelssohn his German translation of Charles Bonnet's essay on Christian Evidences, with a preface where he publicly challenged Mendelssohn to refute Bonnet or if he could not then to " do what wisdom, the love of truth and honesty must bid him, what a Socrates would have done if he had read the book and found it unanswerable ".

File: Pirate Flag of Stede Bonnet. svg | Traditional depiction of Stede Bonnet's flag.

After Powell left Rainbow he worked with vocalist Graham Bonnet ( he too an ex-Rainbow member ) on Bonnet's new project called Graham Bonnet & The Hooligans, their most notable single being the UK top 10 single " Night Games " ( 1981 ), also on Bonnet's solo Line Up album.

Bonnet's wife, often known as Madame Soutien-Georges, ran a salon, and had great ambitions for her husband ; one contemporary reported that Madame Bonnet was " so wildly ambitious for her husband that when a new ministry was being formed he was afraid to go home at night unless he had captured a post for himself ".

In Bonnet's opinion, the Franco-Czechoslovak treaty of 1924 committing France to come to the aid of the CzechoSlovakia in the event of a German invasion was a millstone that could lead France into a war with Germany that would be disastrous Bonnet believed that the best course for France in 1938 was to pressure the Czechoslovak government into conceding to German demands to prevent a Franco-German war.

During the meeting, Bonnet met with the Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, who offered vague and evasive answers to Bonnet's questions about what the Soviet Union proposed to do in the event of a German attack on Czechoslovakia.

It is the only one which can save the country ...." At the same time, Bonnet's relations with René Massigli, the Quai d ' Orsay's Political Director, began to deteriorate quite rapidly as Massigli felt that Bonnet was too anxious to avoid a war at any price.

Bonnet had also wanted to sack the Quai d ' Orsay's Secretary-General Alexis Saint-Legér Léger and replace him with a man more in tune with Bonnet's views, but Saint-Legér Léger's increasing friendship with Daladier served to protect him.

On another occasion, Bois, who disliked Bonnet, wrote of Bonnet's " features ... instinct with ... the intelligence of a fox on the alert ".

The French historian Yvon Lacaze has argued against the popular image of Bonnet as a slick and amoral opportunist, and instead attributes Bonnet's views about avoiding another war with Germany to his memories of service in the trenches of World War I.

The continuing feud between Massigli and Bonnet was reflected in Bonnet's habit of refusing Massigli negotiating instructions for weeks on end, thereby placing Massigli in an embarrassing situation when he attempted talks with the Turks.

Bonnet's reasons in seeking to block the signing of the Franco-Polish political accord were a way of applying pressure on the Poles to grant the Soviets transit rights, and because in case the negotiations for the " grand alliance " failed, Bonnet did not wish to see France any more committed to Poland's defense.

In June 1939, Bonnet's reputation was badly damaged when the French agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Otto Abetz, was expelled from France for engaging in espionage, French newspaper editors were charged with receiving bribes from Abetz, and the name of Bonnet's wife was prominently mentioned in connection with the Abetz case as a close friend of the two editors, but despite much lucid speculation in the French press at the time, that no evidence has ever emerged linking Bonnet or his wife to German espionage or bribery.

Reynaud and Mandel both spoke for French mobilization, which Bonnet argued would increase Polish " intransigence "; Bonnet's comment about mobilization was " I do not ask for this ".

More worthy of being bracketed with Goudelin is the avocat Bonnet, author of the best among the open air plays that were annually performed at Béziers on Ascension Day: a number of these ( dated 1616-1657 ) were subsequently collected, but none can compare with the opening one, Bonnet's.

It is not known where Bonnet received his education, but many who knew him described him as bookish, and Judge Nicholas Trott alluded to Bonnet's liberal education when sentencing him.

While at Nassau, Bonnet met Captain Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Teach for the first time ; Teach, better known as Blackbeard, played a large role in the remainder of Bonnet's life.

In response to Bonnet's speech, Ribbentrop summoned the French Ambassador to Germany, Robert Coulondre, on 6 February 1939 to offer a formal protest over his speech.

Bonnet's life was uneventful.

They had no children, but Madame Bonnet's nephew, the celebrated Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, was brought up as their son.

An important role in bringing Bonnet's business and Matra together was also contributed by an energetic former fighter pilot and national politician called André Moynet whose involvement with the enterprise appears to have outlasted Bonnet's own.

Matra's rapidly evolving partnership with René Bonnet's auto-making business was the beginning of the subsequently better known Matra Automobile division, formally inaugurated in October 1964.

Bonnet's first major act as Finance Minister was to oversee the devaluation of the franc ( the second devaluation in less than nine months ), with the value of the franc going from 110. 8 francs per British pound to 147. 20.

Bonnet's cuts in military spending created a major row with the War Minister Édouard Daladier, who was able to persuade the Cabinet to rescind the most severe of Bonnet's cuts to the budget of the French Army by pointing out that in the current international climate, the French Army needed more funding, not less.

An additional complication in the Daladier-Bonnet relationship was posed by Bonnet's desire for the premiership, which gradually led to a breakdown with his once warm relations with Daladier.

It was Bonnet's hope that ending arms supplies for the Spanish Republic would be reciprocated by a total Italian withdraw from all Spanish territory, especially the Balearics.

Another unofficial member of the " peace lobby " was Phipps, whose dispatches to London often reflected Bonnet's influence.

Besides seeking to end the cordon sanitaire, Bonnet's major initiative in foreign policy after Munich was a series of economic agreements he sought to negotiate with the Germans.

Bonnet's economic diplomacy was intended to achieve four goals:

When the war scare began on 18 March 1939, Bonnet's first response was to inform the Romanians that they should accept aid from the Soviet Union as there was nothing France could do to save them.

Bonnet's reasons for arguing that Britain should take the lead in persuading Poland to come to Romania's aid were his fear that if France made such an effort, the price of Polish support would a tightening of the Franco-Polish alliance, which was counter to Bonnet's general policy of seeking to weaken France's eastern alliances.

Bonnet's philosophical system may be outlined as follows.

At that meeting, Bonnet's arguments for abandoning Poland were countered by General Gamelin, who argued that if war came, there was little France could do for the Poles ( whom Gamelin felt could hold out for about three months ), but to abandon Poland would be equivalent to abandoning great power status for France.

Details of Bonnet's military service are unclear, but he held the rank of major in the Barbados militia.

This happened in 1766, when he inserted his observation on planetary distances into a German translation of Charles Bonnet's book Contemplation de la Nature.

The German move badly damaged Bonnet's creditability, and as part of the aftermath, 17 French intellectuals sent out a letter calling for an inquiry into Bonnet's conduct of foreign affairs.