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Bertrand de Jouvenel
Philosopher + Politician + Futurist
Male
Born
Oct 31, 1903
Hometown
Paris
Died
Mar 1, 1987
Death Place
Paris
Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.
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CHILDHOOD
1903
Birth
Born on October 31, 1903.
1912
8 Years Old
Henri divorced Sarah in 1912 to become the second husband of French writer Colette.
TEENAGE
1920
16 Years Old
In 1920, when he was a mere 16, Bertrand began an affair with his stepmother, who was then in her late 40s.
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TWENTIES
1930
26 Years Old
From 1930 to 1934, De Jouvenel had an affair with the American war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.
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THIRTIES
In his memoirs, The Invisible Writing, Arthur Koestler recalled that in 1934, Jouvenel was among a small number of French intellectuals who promised moral and financial support to the newly-established Institut pour l'Étude du Fascisme, a supposedly self-financing enterprise of the Popular Front.
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1935
31 Years Old
He began a paper with Pierre Andreu called La Lutte des jeunes (The Struggle of the Young) while at the same time contributing to the right wing paper Gringoire, for which he covered the 1935 Nuremberg Congress in Germany where the infamous Nuremberg Laws were passed.
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1936
32 Years Old
In February 1936 he interviewed Adolf Hitler for the journal Paris-Midi, for which he was criticised for being too friendly to the dictator.
1938
34 Years Old
That same year he joined Jacques Doriot's Parti populaire français (PPF). He became the editor in chief of its journal L'Émancipation nationale (National Emancipation), wherein he supported facsism. He broke with the PPF in 1938 when Doriot supported the Munich Agreement.
FORTIES
1947
43 Years Old
Jouvenel's mother passionately supported Czechoslovakian independence, and so he began his career as a private secretary to Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovakia's first prime minister. In 1947, along with Friedrich Hayek, Jacques Rueff, and Milton Friedman, he founded the Mont Pelerin Society.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1983
79 Years Old
De Jouvenel sued in 1983, claiming nine counts of libel, two of which the court upheld.
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1987
83 Years Old
Died on March 1, 1987.
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