1. Jean-Marcel Jeanneney was minister in various French governments in the 1950s and 1960s, and France's first ambassador to Algeria in the immediate aftermath of the Algerian War.
13 Facts About Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
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The only son of Jules Jeanneney, Jean-Marcel Jeanneney graduated in economics from the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney taught at universities in Dijon and Grenoble in the late 1930s.
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In 1958, the younger Jean-Marcel Jeanneney was appointed by Jacques Rueff to the Rueff-Pinay committee, a group of experts on economic reform whose ultimate product, the Rueff-Pinay plan, lowered French tariffs, returned the French franc to full convertibility after re-evaluating it, and reformed financial markets.
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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney was Minister of Industry in the Michel Debre government from 1959 to 1962, ending when he was appointed French ambassador and high commissioner to Algeria.
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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney held this post for six months, immediately after Algeria gained independence from France.
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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney served on a number of government committees between 1963 and 1966, and was Minister for Social Affairs from 1966 to 1968.
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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney was elected in 1968 to the National Assembly as a deputy for Isere, running with the Union des Democrates pour la Republique and defeating the incumbent Pierre Mendes-France.
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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney resigned his seat shortly afterwards to become the Minister Responsible for Senate and Regional Government Reform for a year.
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From 1965 to 1989, Jean-Marcel Jeanneney served in a number of posts in local government in Rioz.
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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney taught economics at the University of Paris I from 1970 to 1989, becoming a director at the French Fondation nationale des sciences politiques.
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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney founded OFCE in 1981 and was its president until 1989.
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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney died in Paris, France, on 17 September 2010 at the age of 99.