Jean-François Deniau
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Jean-François Deniau | |
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.jpg) Deniau in 1973 | |
| European Commissioner for Trade | |
| In office 1967–1970 | |
| President | Jean Rey |
| Preceded by | Jean Rey |
| Succeeded by | Ralf Dahrendorf |
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| Born | 31 October 1928 Paris, France |
| Died | 24 January 2007 (aged 78) Paris, France |
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| Alma mater | Sciences Po, ÉNA |
Jean-François Deniau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa dənjo]; 31 October 1928 – 24 January 2007) was a French politician, diplomat, essayist and novelist. Until 1998, he was a member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF).
Biography
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Minister and diplomat
[edit]In 1958, he became the director of Foreign Relations for the European Commission. He was the author of the foreword of the Treaty of Rome. In 1963, he was named French ambassador to Mauritania and in 1967 he was appointed as one of the French European Commissioners, as a member of the Rey Commission, in 1970 followed by his membership of the Malfatti Commission. He was responsible for the accession negotiations of Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland, Denmark and Norway, and for assistance to developing countries.
In 1973, he entered the government of Pierre Messmer as Secretary of State for Coopération, and was then named Secretary of State to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the government formed by Jacques Chirac after the election of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to the presidency of the French Republic in 1974. In 1976, J.F. Deniau became France's ambassador to Madrid, on the request of the new king Juan Carlos, with whom he had begun a friendship during regattas. Deniau would play an active advisory role to the king and the government during Spain's democratic transition following the death of general Franco.
In September 1977, Jean-François Deniau was named Secretary of State to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the government of Raymond Barre, then Minister of Foreign Commerce (1978), and finally Minister of Administrative Reform in Raymond Barre's last government (1981).
From 1978 to 1981 and from 1986 to 1997 he was a member of the French parliament.
As a writer
[edit]He was elected to the Académie Française on 9 April 1992.
He died in Paris in 2007, aged 78.
Bibliography
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- Le Bord des larmes (1955)
- Le Marché commun (1958)
- La mer est ronde (1975)
- L'Europe interdite (1977)
- Deux heures après minuit (1985)
- La Désirade (1988)
- Un héros très discret (1989)
- L'Empire nocturne (1990)
- Ce que je crois (1992)
- Le Secret du Roi des serpents (1993)
- Mémoires de sept vies. Tome 1 : Les temps aventureux (1994)
- L'Atlantique est mon désert (1996)
- Mémoires de sept vies. Tome 2 : Croire et oser (1997)
- Le Bureau des secrets perdus (1998)
- Tadjoura (1999)
- Histoires de courage (2000)
- La bande à Suzanne (2000)
- L'île Madame (2001)
- Dictionnaire amoureux de la mer (2002)
- La gloire à 20 ans (2003)
- La Double Passion écrire ou agir (2004)
- La Lune et le miroir (2004)
- Le Secret du roi des Serpents (2005)
- Le grand jeu (2005)
References
[edit]- ^ *[Soudan : situation au Darfour] on Dailymotion (in French). Retrieved 13 December 2020. *"Jean-François Deniau, Président d'Honneur de CARE France, appelle à un accord politique d'urgence, assurant la sécurité au Darfour". carefrance.org (in French). 1 July 2004. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
External links
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Media related to Jean-François Deniau at Wikimedia Commons- L'Académie française (in French)
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- Writers from Paris
- Independent Republicans politicians
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- Politicians of the French Fifth Republic
- Government ministers of France
- Ministers for administrative reform of France
- Secretaries of State of France
- Ambassadors of France to Mauritania
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- Members of the Académie Française
- French European commissioners
- Sciences Po alumni
- École nationale d'administration alumni
- Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Prix Maurice Genevoix winners
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- French male essayists
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- European commissioners (1967–1970)
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