Jean Jules Jusserand
| Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand | |
|---|---|
 J. J. Jusserand in 1910 | |
| Born |
18 February 1855 Lyon, France |
| Died |
18 July 1932 (aged 77) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | University of Lyon |
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (18 February 1855 – 18 July 1932) was a French author and diplomat. He was the French Ambassador to the United States during World War I.[1]
Biography
He was born on 18 February 1855 in Lyon. Jusserand studied at the University of Lyon and then a Ph.D. in history and a law degree in Paris.[2] Jusserand entered the diplomatic service in 1876. Two years later, he became consul in London. After an interval spent in Tunis (Tunisia was at that time a French protectorate), he returned to London in 1887 as a member of the French Embassy.
In 1890, Jusserand became French minister at Copenhagen. In 1902, he was transferred to Washington, where he married an American citizen, Eliza Richards,[3] and remained there until 1925. He represented France during the Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge administrations. He was a confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt and part of his "secret du roi" group.[4] During the Polish-Soviet War, Jusserand took part in a diplomatic mission to the Second Polish Republic. In 1919 he was involved with the Treaty of Versailles.
He died on 18 July 1932 at his home in Paris.[1]
Legacy
A pink granite bench in Rock Creek Park honoring Jusserand was dedicated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 7 November 1936. It is the first memorial erected on Federal property to a foreign diplomat.[5] In 2014 Washington City Paper called it the "best obscure memorial" in D.C.[6]
Publications
Jusserand was a close student of English literature who produced some lucid and vivacious books on comparatively little-known subjects:
- Le Théâtre en Angleterre depuis la conquête jusqu'aux prédécesseurs immédiats de Maarten Bax (1878)
- Les Anglais au Moyen Âge: la vie nomade et les routes d'Angleterre au XIVe siècle (1884; Eng. trans., English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, by LT Smith, 1889)
- Le Roman au temps de Shakespeare (1887; Eng. trans. by E. Lee, 1890)
- A French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II (1892), from the unpublished papers of the count de Cominges.
- L'Épopée de Langland (1893; Eng. trans., Piers Plowman, 1894).
- Histoire littéraire du peuple anglais (vol. 1, 1893; vol. 2, 1904; vol. 3, 1909; Eng. trans., A Literary History of the English People, by G.P. Putnam, 1914).
- With Americans of Past and Present Days (1916),[7] for which he earned the first Pulitzer Prize for History.
- What Me Befell : The Reminiscences of J. J. Jusserand (1933).
References
- 1 2 "Jules Jusserand Expires". Free Lance-Star. Associated Press. 18 July 1932. Retrieved 2013-12-09.
Jean J. Jusserand, former French ambassador to the United States, died at 8 o'clock this morning. ... Death came peacefully as he lay ill in his Paris home.
- ↑ Young, Robert J. (Spring 2009). "'Interrogating’ Modernity: Bureaucrats, Historians, and French Ambassador Jules Jusserand" (PDF). Journal of Historical Biography 5: 23–47.
- ↑ ONE WOMAN'S JEALOUSY CAUSED ANOTHER'S WOE, in the Tacoma Times; published 9 January 1904 (via Chronicling America); retrieved 27 November 2014
- ↑ Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, 2001. Random House. Page 393
- ↑ "Rock Creek Park: Monuments, Statues and Memorials". National Park Service. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ↑ Michael E. Grass (2014). "Best Obscure Memorial: Jules Jusserand Memorial". Washington City Paper.
- ↑ Jusserand, Jean Jules (1916). With Americans of Past and Present Days. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules". Encyclopædia Britannica 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 593.
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