Jean Coutrot (27 March 1895 – 19 May 1941) was a French engineer. He was one of the pioneers of the X-Crise group. In 1936, he founded with Center for Studies of Human Problems with

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Alexis Carrel Alexis Carrel (; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charl ...

. In June 1941, Coutrot's name was mentioned in a report submitted by Henri Chavin, director of the National Security, to the Minister of the Interior. In this document, Chavin denounces Coutrot for having founded several groups, such as the Center for Studies of Human Problems, allegedly with the aim of "recruiting ..members of the MSE ynarchic Empire Movement. The "Chavin Report" thus constitutes the starting point of the denunciations aimed at the purported plot of "

Synarchy Synarchism generally means "joint rule" or "harmonious rule". Beyond this general definition, both ''synarchism'' and ''synarchy'' have been used to denote rule by a secret elite in Vichy France, Italy, China, and Hong Kong, while being used to de ...

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1895 births 1941 deaths École Polytechnique alumni 20th-century French engineers People of the French Third Republic Suicides by jumping in France Non-conformists of the 1930s {{France-engineer-stub