Étienne Dennery (20 March 1903;
Paris – 29 December 1979; Paris) was a French academic, public servant and diplomat.
Dennery studied at the
École normale supérieure from 1923 to 1926 and became ''
agrégé'' in history and geography.
He received an
Albert Kahn grant to travel abroad and spent time in China, India and Japan studying demographics and gathering material for a book published in French in 1930 and translated in English in 1931 under the title ''Asia's teeming millions: and its problems for the West''.
He later worked as an economic expert for the
Lytton Commission on Manchuria.
He then taught at the
École Libre des Sciences Politiques, the
Institute of Higher International Studies (
Panthéon-Assas University) and at
HEC Paris
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as well as giving invited lectures throughout the Northwestern
United States.
In 1935, Dennery and
Louis Joxe co-founded the ''Centre d'études de politique étrangère'' (center for foreign policy) which Joxe described as inspired by the British
Royal Institute of International Affairs.
When
Germany invaded France in 1940, Dennery joined
Charles de Gaulle
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's
Free French Forces and worked for the information services.
After the end of the war in 1945, Dennery joined the
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as the director for Americas affairs.
He was then successively named
Ambassador to Poland (1950–54),
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
(1954–61) and
Japan
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(1961–64).
Returning to France, Dennery was named on 16 September 1964 ''Directeur des bibliothèques et de la lecture publique, administrateur général de la Bibliothèque nationale'' (director of libraries and public reading, administrator general of the
National Library), a job he held until his retirement in 1975.
Bibliography
*''Asia's teeming millions: and its problems for the West'', 1931 (1930 for the French edition)
*''A French economist's visit to western colleges'', 1936
References
External links
Étienne Dennery WorldCat lookup
1903 births
1979 deaths
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Ambassadors of France to Japan
Ambassadors of France to Poland
Ambassadors of France to Switzerland
Sciences Po faculty
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University faculty
HEC Paris faculty
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