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

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

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

We have been giving weekly soirees to the great guns here—all the different corps diplomatique and lords and marquises without end.

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