Realizing the danger that they were in, the Baron and Storch obtained French passports and made plans to flee to Cuba.
It appears on the cover of French passports and was adopted originally by the French Foreign Ministry as a symbol for use by diplomatic and consular missions in 1912 using a design by the sculptor Jules-Clément Chaplain.
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After escaping from India, Spiers was next arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport in Sri Lanka on 1 December 1984 while travelling on a French passport under the name Patrick Claude Albert Ledoux.
The minister to France, Benjamin Franklin, based the design of passports issued by his mission on that of the French passport.