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- Jean Monnet (born Nov. 9, 1888, Cognac, France—died March 16, 1979, Houjarray) was a French political economist and diplomat who initiated comprehensive economic planning in western Europe after World War II. In France, he was responsible for the successful plan designed to rebuild and modernize that nation’s crumbled economy.
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Jean-François Monot, né en 1949 à Lausanne et mort le 25 décembre 2023 [1], est un compositeur et chef d'orchestre vaudois.
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Jean-François Monot was born in 1949 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a composer, known for War in the Highlands (1998). He has been married to Giselle Souchet since 1989.
The French political and economic adviser Jean Monnet dedicated himself to the cause of European integration. He was the inspiration behind the ‘Schuman Plan’, which foresaw the merger of west European heavy industry. Monnet was from the Cognac region of France.
Jean Monnet was a French economist and public official who lived from 1888 to 1979. Since the First World War, he made efforts to provide unity in Europe. With the consideration of his efforts on French and British cooperation during the years of war, he was appointed as the Secretary General of League of Nations in 1919.
- 1888 – Birth in Cognac
- 1905 – Discovery of The New World
- 1914 – The Inter-Allied Committees
- 1919 – The League of Nations
- 1926 – Banker in The United States
- 1929 – Marriage in Moscow
- 1934 – Advisor to Chiang Kai-Shek
- 1938 – Airplanes For France
- 1940 – Total Franco-British Union
- 1941 – The Victory Program
Jean Monnet was born on November 9, 1888 in Cognac in Charente into a family of cognac merchants. His father Jean-Gabriel, son of winegrowers, had risen to the coveted rank of merchant and had taken the helm in 1897 of a cooperative of small producers which he had gradually bought to form a family company, JG Monnet Cie. The Charente has been open ...
In 1905, at just sixteen years old, Jean Monnet leaves for “the City” of London where he learns English and business from his father’s local agent. At eighteen, the young man feels ready to face America and embarks on the first of these great transatlantic crossings that he would love all his life. His father advises him: “Don’t take any books. No ...
It was in July 1914 at Poitiers station, returning from Canada, that Jean Monnet learns of the general mobilization. Reformed in 1908 for lung problems, he cannot be mobilized, but he intends to contribute as he could to the war effort. Drawing on his experience as a charterer and his knowledge of England, the young merchant notices the disorderly ...
From 1919, Jean Monnet contributes to the creation of the League of Nations, wanted by American President Woodrow Wilson, the first international organization devoted to the maintenance of peace. When it was created in 1920, the young man, then aged thirty-one, was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the organization. He is the number two in char...
It was without bitterness that Jean Monnet resignd from the League of Nations in December 1922 to join Cognac and help his father rebuild the family business damaged by American prohibition. His younger sister Marie-Louise having convinced him that his return was essential, the former leader of the League of Nations actually finds a difficult situa...
In August 1929, a few months before the Great Depression, Jean Monnet hade made the encounter that would change his life. During a dinner at his home in Paris attended by René Pleven, he had met Silvia, the young wife of an Italian businessman. The case is complicated because Silvia is married under Italian law and her husband refuses her a divorce...
Jean Monnet’s mission to China could have taken place under the aegis of the League of Nations, but Japan opposes it and Jean Monnet leaves for Shanghai on a private basis under the name Monnet-Murnane & Co., a company created for the occasion with George Murnane, an American friend. In this private setting, Monnet nevertheless continues to collabo...
On his return from China in 1936, Jean Monnet settles with his family in the United States. Since 1933, he knows the Roosevelt administration well within which he has many friends. Monnet had been convinced for several years of the threat posed by Hitler and from 1938 he is worried like others about the manifest inferiority of the French air force....
In June 1940, Jean Monnet refuses defeat. He, who has had the reflex of collective action since the First World War, takes up a proposal as audacious as it is desperate. By a note entitled “Anglo French Unity”, he convinces Churchill, his cabinet, and de Gaulle, cornered by the debacle, of the interest of an immediate and total fusion of France and...
In August 1940, Jean Monnet arrives in Washington. He finds there an isolationist America which obviously does not have the industrial apparatus necessary for the production of weapons in sufficient quantities to ensure the victory of the Allies. The production of planes in particular is not at the level required to compensate for the superiority o...
Jean Monnet was a French political economist and diplomat who initiated comprehensive economic planning in western Europe after World War II. In France, he was responsible for the successful plan designed to rebuild and modernize that nation’s crumbled economy.
This simple idea guided his actions during the two global conflicts and later in launching and pursuing the construction of the European Community. Jean Monnet was a tireless man of action Pragmatic and determined as he was, he also understood the importance of words.
