Christian Calmes was a Luxembourg

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ian civil servant, lawyer, and historian. He served as Secretary-General

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 of the precursor to the Council of the European Union

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 from its inception as part of the European Coal and Steel Community

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 in 1952 until 1973.

Calmes was President of the Young Lawyers of Luxembourg from 1945 to 1946. He wrote two books on the history of Luxembourg: Histoire contemporaine du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (1968) and Au fil de l'Histoire (1968, with his father). They have been printed in several editions since, and the former has been widely used as a textbook

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. Calmes was Grand Marshal of Luxembourg from 1981 until 1984.

He died in Grasse

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, France

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, in 1995, at the age of 81.