Jean-Marcel Jeanneney (13 November 1910 – 17 September 2010) was minister in various French governments in the 1950s and 1960s, and France's first ambassador to

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in the immediate aftermath of the

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. Born in Paris, he has been a professor of economics and is the founder of the ''Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques''.

Early life

The only son of

Jules Jeanneney Jules Émile Jeanneney (6 July 1864–27 April 1957) was a French lawyer and politician. Jules Jeanneney was born in Besançon in the department of Doubs. His mother died soon after his birth, leaving his father, an auctioneer, to raise the c ...

(a deputy in the

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, president of the

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, and Minister of State in

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's post-World War II provisional government), Jean-Marcel Jeanneney graduated in economics from the

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(better known as ''

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''). He taught at universities in

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and

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in the late 1930s.

Early political career

Jeanneney was his father's

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during the provisional government (1944–1946). In 1958, the younger Jeanneney was appointed by

Jacques Rueff Jacques Léon Rueff (23 August 1896 – 23 April 1978) was a French economist and adviser to the French government. Life An influential French conservative and free market thinker, Rueff was born the son of a well known Parisian physician and st ...

to the Rueff-Pinay committee, a group of experts on economic reform whose ultimate product, the Rueff-Pinay plan, lowered French tariffs, returned the

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to full convertibility after re-evaluating it, and reformed financial markets. Jeanneney was Minister of Industry in the

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government from 1959 to 1962, ending when he was appointed French ambassador and high commissioner to

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. He held this post for six months, immediately after Algeria gained independence from France. He served on a number of government committees between 1963 and 1966, and was Minister for Social Affairs from 1966 to 1968. Jeanneney was elected in 1968 to the National Assembly as a deputy for

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and defeating the incumbent

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. He resigned his seat shortly afterwards to become the Minister Responsible for Senate and Regional Government Reform for a year. From 1965 to 1989, Jeanneney served in a number of posts in local government in

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. Jeanneney taught economics at the

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from 1970 to 1989, becoming a director at the French ''Fondation nationale des sciences politiques'' (National Foundation for Political Science). He founded the ''Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques'' (French Institute for the Study of Economic Conditions) in 1981 and was its president until 1989. Jeanneney's son,

Jean-Noël Jeanneney Jean-Noël Jeanneney (born 2 April 1942, in Grenoble) is a French historian and politician. He is the son of Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and the grandson of Jules Jeanneney, both important figures in French politics. Education After his secondary schoo ...

(born 1942), is a well-known French politician and educator. Jean-Marcel Jeanneney died in Paris, France, on 17 September 2010 at the age of 99.

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Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
in French)

(in French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeanneney, Jean-Marcel 1910 births 2010 deaths Politicians from Paris Union of Democrats for the Republic politicians Reformist Movement (France) politicians French Ministers of Justice French Ministers of Commerce and Industry Government ministers of France Deputies of the 4th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Ambassadors of France to Algeria Sciences Po alumni French people of the Algerian War