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Bertrand de Jouvenel was born on 31 October, 1903 in Paris, France, is a French politician and futurist (1903–1987). Discover Bertrand de Jouvenel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 31 October 1903
Birthday 31 October
Birthplace Paris, France
Date of death 1987
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality France

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1903

Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987) was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.

He taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Manchester, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Bertrand was the heir of an old family from the French nobility, coming from the Champagne region.

He was the son of Henri de Jouvenel and Sarah Boas, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist.

1912

Henri divorced Sarah in 1912 to become the second husband of French writer Colette.

1920

In 1920, when he was only 16, Bertrand began an affair with his stepmother, who was then in her late 40s.

The affair ended Colette and Henri's marriage and caused a scandal.

Some believe Bertrand to be the role model for the title character in Colette's novel Chéri, but in fact she had published about half the book, in serial form, before she and her stepson met for the first time, in the spring of 1920.

Their affair actually inspired Colette's novel Le Blé en herbe.

1924

It lasted until 1924.

1930

In the 1930s, he participated in the Cahiers Bleus, the review of Georges Valois' Republican Syndicalist Party.

From 1930 to 1934, Jouvenel had an affair with the American war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.

They would have married had his wife agreed to a divorce.

Zeev Sternhell published a book, Ni Droite, ni Gauche ("Neither Right nor Left"), accusing De Jouvenel of having had fascist sympathies in the 1930s and 1940s.

1934

In his memoirs, The Invisible Writing, Arthur Koestler recalled that in 1934, Jouvenel was among a small number of French intellectuals who promised moral and financial support to the newly established Institut pour l'Étude du Fascisme, a supposedly self-financing enterprise.

Other personalities to offer support were Professor Langevin, the Joliot–Curies, André Malraux, etc.

However, that same year, Jouvenel was impressed by the riot of the antiparliamentary leagues that occurred on 6 February 1934, became disillusioned with traditional political parties and left the Radical Party.

1935

He began a paper with Pierre Andreu called La Lutte des jeunes (The Struggle of the Young) while at the same time contributing to the right wing paper Gringoire, for which he covered the 1935 Nuremberg Congress in Germany where the infamous Nuremberg Laws were passed.

He began frequenting royalist and nationalist circles, where he met Henri de Man and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.

He was in favour of Franco-German rapprochement and created the "Cercle du grand pavois", which supported the Comité France–Allemagne (Franco-German Committee).

Here he became friends with Otto Abetz, the future German ambassador to Paris during the occupation.

1936

In February 1936 he interviewed Adolf Hitler for the journal Paris-Midi, for which he was criticised for being too friendly to the dictator.

That same year he joined Jacques Doriot's Parti populaire français (PPF).

He became the editor in chief of its journal L'Émancipation nationale (National Emancipation), wherein he supported fascism.

1938

He broke with the PPF in 1938 when Doriot supported the Munich Agreement.

1940

After the French defeat in 1940 Jouvenel stayed in Paris and under German occupation published Après la Défaite, calling for France to join Hitler's New Order.

He fled to Switzerland just before the liberation of Paris by the Allies.

Jouvenel was among the very few French intellectuals to pay respectful attention to the economic theory and welfare economics that emerged during the first half of the 20th century in Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This understanding of economics is shown by his work The Ethics of Redistribution.

Jouvenel's mother passionately supported Czechoslovakian independence, and so he began his career as a private secretary to Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovakia's first prime minister.

1947

In 1947, along with Friedrich Hayek, Jacques Rueff, and Milton Friedman, he founded the Mont Pelerin Society.

Later in life, de Jouvenel established the Futuribles International in Paris.

Dennis Hale of Boston College has co-edited two volumes of essays by Jouvenel.

Later in his life, Jouvenel's views shifted back to the left.

1960

In 1960, he complained to Milton Friedman that the Mont Pelerin Society had "turned increasingly to a Manichaeism according to which the state can do no good and private enterprise can do no wrong."

1968

He was sympathetic to the student protests of 1968 and critical of the Vietnam War.

He also expressed support for the Socialist François Mitterrand.

1983

De Jouvenel sued in 1983, claiming nine counts of libel, two of which the court upheld.

However, Sternhell was neither required to publish a retraction nor to strike any passages from future printings of his book.