Jean Monnet
French political economist regarded by as a chief architect of European unity (1888-1979) · France · Academics · Died at 90
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Something wrong?Never elected to anything, yet he built the architecture that became the European Union - working corridors and back rooms in the 1950s to fuse coal, steel, and old enemies into a single project.
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, France is the nation of the rights of man.
There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection….
Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.
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About this person
Born in November 1888, Monnet spent decades as a civil servant, diplomat, and financier moving between American and European power centers. In mid-June 1940 he met Charles de Gaulle in London during the Battle of France, beginning a thirty-year relationship that cycled between alliance and suspicion. Through the 1950s Monnet engineered the European Coal and Steel Community, the structure that preceded today's Union, doing it all from behind the scenes as what colleagues called a "pragmatic internationalist." In 1976 he became the first person named Honorary Citizen of Europe. France moved his remains to the Panthéon in 1988, a century after his birth.
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