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'François Marie Denis Georges-Picot' (21 December 1870 – 20 June 1951), son of historian Georges Picot and great-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 in 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 1897 with Marie Fouquet, born on 13 August 1873, had three children.