1. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS, was a French journalist and politician.
20 Facts About Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber oversaw its transition to the center-right, the party being thereafter known as Parti radical valoisien.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber tried to found in 1972 the Reforming Movement with Christian Democrat Jean Lecanuet, with whom he supported Valery Giscard d'Estaing's conservative candidature to the 1974 presidential election.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber studied at the Lycee Janson-de-Sailly and the Lycee de Grenoble, then returned to Paris.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber was among the first to recognize the inevitability of decolonization, writing a series of articles on the Indo-Chinese conflict.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber opposed General De Gaulle's return to power in 1958.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's family lost control of Les Echos; he split politically with Mendes-France; he divorced his first wife, and separated from Francoise Giroud, his mistress since the early 1950s, in order to marry Sabine Becq de Fouquieres, who would become the mother of his four sons David, Emile, Franklin, and Edouard.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber found a collaborator in Michel Albert, who provided him with extensive documentation to inform his editorials.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber saw in this thesis the potential for a seminal book.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber fleshed it out with reading keys and concrete proposals for a counter-offensive.
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General De Gaulle's resignation in 1969 persuaded Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber to try his hand at politics.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber helped to reform the party, writing its manifesto, and became its president in 1971.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber was elected Deputy of Nancy in 1970, but, later on the same year, he made the surprise decision to run against Jacques Chaban-Delmas in Bordeaux.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber served several terms or partial terms in the French National Assembly, and was Minister for Reform in 1974 but, being opposed to nuclear tests, he was prompted to resign after three weeks by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber was elected in 1976 as President of the regional council of Lorraine, defeating Pierre Messmer.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber advocated decentralization through regionalization; reallocation of resources from the Concorde program to the Airbus; an end to nuclear testing; reform of the grandes ecoles; and computerization.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber left the party in 1979 at the time of the first direct European elections, to present a list of candidates under the slogan Emploi, Egalite, Europe with Giroud.
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In 1980 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber published his second bestseller, Le Defi mondial, devoted to the technological rise of Japan through computerization.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber served as shadow councillor to his close acquaintances Francois Mitterrand and Valery Giscard d'Estaing; his friendship with the latter went back to the Ecole Polytechnique.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber then moved to Pittsburgh where he had his four sons educated at Carnegie Mellon University, a leader in computer science.