Jean-Marcel Jeanneney | |
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| French Minister of Justice | |
| In office 28 April 1969 – 16 June 1969 | |
| President | Alain Poher |
| Prime Minister | Maurice Couve de Murville |
| Preceded by | René Capitant |
| Succeeded by | René Pleven |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1910-11-13)13 November 1910 |
| Died | 17 September 2010(2010-09-17) (aged 99) Paris, France |
| Party | UDR |
Jean-Marcel Jeanneney (13 November 1910 – 17 September 2010[1]) wasminister in various French governments in the 1950s and 1960s, and France's first ambassador toAlgeria in the immediate aftermath of theAlgerian War.[2] Born in Paris, he has been a professor of economics and is the founder of theObservatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques (OFCE).
The only son ofJules Jeanneney (a deputy in theNational Assembly of France, president of theFrench Senate, and Minister of State inCharles de Gaulle's post-World War II provisional government), Jean-Marcel Jeanneney graduated in economics from theParis Institute of Political Studies (better known asSciences Po). He taught at universities inDijon andGrenoble in the late 1930s.
Jeanneney was his father'sChief of Staff during the provisional government (1944–1946). In 1958, the younger Jeanneney was appointed byJacques Rueff to theRueff-Pinay committee, a group of experts on economic reform whose ultimate product, theRueff-Pinay plan, lowered French tariffs, returned theFrench franc to full convertibility after re-evaluating it, and reformed financial markets.
Jeanneney was Minister of Industry in theMichel Debré government from 1959 to 1962, ending when he was appointed French ambassador andhigh commissioner toAlgeria. 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 forIsère, running with theUnion des Démocrates pour la République and defeating the incumbentPierre Mendès-France. 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 inRioz.
Jeanneney taught economics at theUniversity of Paris I from 1970 to 1989, becoming a director at the FrenchFondation nationale des sciences politiques (National Foundation for Political Science). He foundedOFCE in 1981 and was its president until 1989.
Jeanneney's son,Jean-Noël Jeanneney (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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| Preceded by | Minister of Justice 1969 | Succeeded by |
