Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet served as the French Ambassador to the United States from 1972 to 1977.
13 Facts About Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet fought in World War II and was captured by German forces.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet escaped, joined the French Resistance, and participated in the defense of the city hall of Paris in 1944, for which he was decorated after the war.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet became Chief of Staff to the Secretary General of the Prefecture of Police and Assistant at the Faculty of Letters in Paris from 1944 to 1946.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet was briefly a professor at Columbia University in 1946.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet was made deputy director of the cabinet of Leon Blum in 1946, and then Chief of Staff for President Vincent Auriol in 1947, a position he held until 1954.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet served Felix Houphouet-Boigny of Cote d'Ivoire from 1956 to 1957.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet was ambassador to the United Nations from 1970 to 1972, and French ambassador to the United States from 1972 to 1977.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet was the national secretary for foreign relations of the Rally for the Republic party from 1983 to 1988, and was mayor of Saint-Nom-la-Breteche from 1977 until his death in Paris in 1994.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet was a director of Christian Dior between 1981 and 1993 and chairman of the supervisory board of Louis Vuitton between 1989 and 1992.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet is the father of Francois Kosciusko-Morizet, Catherine Postel-Vinay, Jacques-Antoine Kosciusko-Morizet and Martine de Beauregard.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet's granddaughter Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet is a former Minister of Ecology and was involved politically for many years at different levels.
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Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet's grandson Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a co-founder of Priceminister.