GAUVAIN, AUGUSTE (1861-1931), French journalist and diplomat, was born at Vesoul Oct. 6, 1861. From 1889 to 1892 he was on the staff of Le Journal des Debats and in 1893 be came general secretary to the European Commission of the Danube. In 1904 he was appointed French secretary to the Central Office of International Transport at Berne. In 1908 he returned to the staff of Le Journal des Debats and from that time directed its foreign policy. Gauvain, who became a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, published verbatim in 14 volumes all his articles in Le Journal des Debats from 1908 to 1920.
Among his works are: Les origines de la guerre europeenne (1915) ; L'Europe avant la guerre (1917) ; L'affaire grecque (1917) ; La ques tion Yougoslave (1918) ; L'encerclement de l'Allemagne (1919).