corps diplomatique

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At the Cite de l’Architecture, a wing of the Palais de Chaillot, you can have a look behind the closed doors even if you don’t know anybody in the French administration or the corps diplomatique.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 4, 2012

Ambassadors of the Great Powers once again remained in Berlin, again fumed at "the impertinence of this ignoramus in inviting the corps diplomatique to a party caucus!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Pious Jugoslavs, shivering bareheaded in the chilling rain, prayed aloud in unison as the stately Orthodox service began in Belgrade Cathedral, pack-jammed with royalty, statesmen and the corps diplomatique.

From Time Magazine Archive

The North Vietnamese cars bear the green-and-orange plates of the corps diplomatique.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had a good house, a first-rate chef, six horses, and plenty of society,—a corps diplomatique of pleasant folk and their wives; cheerful reunions every evening; sometimes a dinner at the Grand Duke's Court.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund