| Stephen Pichon | |
| Office1: | French Minister to China |
| Term Start1: | 1897 |
| Term End1: | 1900 |
| Office2: | Resident-General of the Tunisian Protectorate |
| Term Start2: | 1901 |
| Term End2: | 1906 |
| Predecessor2: | Georges Benoit. |
| Successor2: | Gabriel Alapetite |
| Office3: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Term Start3: | 1906 |
| Term End3: | 1911 |
| Predecessor3: | Léon Bourgeois |
| Successor3: | Jean Cruppi |
| Term Start4: | 1913 |
| Term End4: | 1913 |
| Predecessor4: | Charles Jonnart |
| Successor4: | Gaston Doumergue |
| Term Start5: | 1917 |
| Term End5: | 1920 |
| Predecessor5: | Louis Barthou |
| Successor5: | Alexandre Millerand |
| Birth Date: | 10 August 1857 |
| Birth Place: | Arnay-le-Duc, Côte-d'Or, France |
| Death Place: | Vers-en-Montagne, Jura, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Signature: | Signature Stephen Pichon.png |
Stephen Jean-Marie Pichon (10 August 1857 – 18 September 1933, Vers-en-Montagne) was a French journalist, diplomat and politician of the Third Republic. The Avenue Stéphen-Pichon in Paris is named after him.
Stephen Jean-Marie Pichon was born on 10 August 1857 in Arnay-le-Duc, Côte-d'Or.
He served as French Minister to China (1897–1900), including the period of the Boxer Uprising.[1] Stephen Pichon was appointed Resident-General of the Tunisian Protectorate in 1901, replacing Georges Benoit.In 1906 he was succeeded by Gabriel Alapetite.
An associate of Georges Clemenceau, he served several times under Clemenceau and others as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Stephen Pichon in Paris managed the French agreement with transformation of Czechoslovak National Council to the Provisional Czechoslovak government on 26 September 1918 (when Edvard Beneš received confirmation of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk from Washington).[2]
His most notable service was under Clemenceau during the latter part of the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, but, like most of the other foreign ministers at the conference, Pichon was largely sidelined by the more forceful figure of his head of government.
Stephen Pichon died on 18 September 1933 in Vers-en-Montagne, Jura.