Jean-Marcel Jeanneney

Jean-Marcel Jeanneney , born the November 13rd 1910 with Paris, is a politician and a economist French.

Biography

Only sons of Jules Jeanneney, he is laid off are letters, graduate in economy with the Private school of political sciences (1936), doctor in aggregate Droit and of economic scenes. He taught at the Universities of Grenoble and Dijon. He is lieutenant of Alpine hunters in 1939-1940.

He is the father of six children of which Jean-Christmas Jeanneney, former president of Radio France and former president of the National library of France (until April 1st, 2007), as well as Laurence Pay-Jeanneney, General Administratrice of the National Academy of Arts and Métiers (great establishment of higher education) CNAM.

Political career

Of 1944 with 1946, he is principal private secretary of his father, minister of state in the Provisional government of the French Republic. It takes part in the Comité Rueff-Pinay, joined together in 1958 by Jacques Rueff to study the French economic reform. Minister of Industry, then of Industry and the trade in the government Debré (1959 - 1962), it is then named Ambassadeur and high representative of France in Algérie (July 1962 - January 1963), the first after independence.

He is named with the Economic and Social Council in 1964, and is Minister for the social Affairs of the January 8th 1966 with the May 31st 1968 in the governments Pompidou 3 and 4. At the time of the legislative elections of June 1968, he is elected appointed (UDR) of the Isere against Pierre Mendès France. He is minister of state in charge of the Constitutional reform and of the regionalization of the July 10th 1968 with the June 20th 1969 in the Couve government of Murville, then assumes the interim of the Minister for the Justice of the April 28th at June 20th, 1969. It is in load of the file of regionalization and the reform of the Senate which is pushed back at the time of the referendum of April 27th, 1969, involving the departure of the general de Gaulle.

From 1967 with 1989, it is Maire of Rioz (Haute-Saône). It also sits at the General advice of the Haute-Saône.

In 1974, it invites to vote for François Mitterrand with the second turn of the presidential election. He also votes for the socialist candidate in 1981, but without giving an opinion publicly, “because of friendly relations with Barre”. In 2007 it once more invites to vote for the candidate of the Socialist party in a letter addressed to Nouvel Observateur and relayed on the site of Ségolène Royal.

He teaches as professor of economic policies to the Université of Paris I starting from 1970 and between to the national Fondation of political sciences (FNSP). He takes part in 1981 in the creation of the French Observatoire of the economic conjunctures (OFCE), and until in 1989 chairs it.

In “To my friends gaullists”, Presses-Pocket, 1973, he explains his adhesion with the reforming Mouvement.

Jean-Marcel Jeanneney affirmed his support for Ségolène Royal at the time of the presidential elections 2007 in an open letter with the newspaper the Nouvel Observateur.

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