A chargé d'affaires, plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of t
Persia's chargé d'affaires and his wife visiting U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at the White House in May 1913
A diplomat is a person appointed by a state, intergovernmental, or nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.
Portrait of Talleyrand by François Gérard, 1808. French statesman and Emperor Napoleon's chief diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) is widely considered one of the most skilled diplomats of all time.