Henry de Jouvenel des Ursins (5 April 1876 – 5 October 1935) was a French

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and statesman.Henry de Jouvenel
additional. Retrieved 14 October 2014. text. He became the French High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon on 23 December 1925 until 23 June 1926.World Statesmen – Syria

Personal life

Henry de Jouvenel was born into a middle-class family of lawyers and politicians. He was educated at the prestigious

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. According to his biographer Rudolph Binion: :Henry de Jouvenel never outgrew the spirit of his schooldays -- his humanism, his enthusiasm for ideas, the original blend of audacity and courtesy in his thinking, his dream of detecting and expressing unanimity amid discord. He matured, not by putting these things aside, but by adding to them.Binion, 1960, p. 124 Jouvenel's first wife was Sarah Boas, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist. They had a son,

Bertrand de Jouvenel 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 ...

, in 1903. Henri divorced Sarah in 1912. That same year he married the novelist

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her ...

. The couple had one daughter,

Colette de Jouvenel Colette de Jouvenel, also known as Bel-Gazou, (July 19131981) was the French producer of an animated film. She was the daughter of French writer Colette and her second husband, Henri de Jouvenel. She was the half-sister of :fr:Renaud de Jouvenel ...

, known to the family as Bel-Gazou ("beautiful babbling/chirping" in local dialect). They divorced in 1924 after Colette became involved romantically with Henry's son Bertrand. This affair became the subject of Colette's novel '' Le Blé en Herbe'' ("Green Wheat"). He is the brother of French journalist Robert de Jouvenel.

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* French Ministers of Overseas France Ambassadors of France to Italy Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni 1876 births 1935 deaths People of the Great Syrian Revolt Senators of Corrèze High Commissioners of the Levant {{France-politician-stub

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