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Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand | |
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 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
Jusserand was born on 18 February 1855 in Lyon, the eldest among four children. He spent his early childhood in Saint-Haon. Taught by a governess until the age of 10, he then attended the private school Les Chartreux, where he studied until 1872. He studied at the University of Lyon and then earned a Ph.D. in history and a law degree in Paris.[2] In 1878, two years after entering the diplomatic service, Jusserand 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 1899, Jusserand had the post of minister in Copenhagen. In 1902, he became ambassador to the United States and 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, a member of his so-called "Tennis Cabinet".[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 it was the Washington City Paper staff pick for "best obscure memorial" in D.C.[6]
Bibliography
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 Shakespeare (1876)
- 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 (1889)
- Le Roman au temps de Shakespeare (1887); Eng. trans., The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare (1890)
- A French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II: Le Comt de Cominge from his unpublished papers (1892)
- L'Épopée Mystique de William Langland (1893); Eng. trans., Piers Plowman, a Contribution to the History of English Mysticism (1894)
- Le Roman d'un Roi d'Ecosse (1895); Eng. trans., The Romance of a King's Life (1896)
- Shakespeare en France sous l'Ancien Regime (1898); Eng. trans., Shakespeare in France under the Ancien Regime (1899)
- What to Expect of Shakespeare (1911)
- Ronsard (1913)
- Histoire littéraire du peuple anglais (vol. 1, 1893; vol. 2, 1904; vol. 3, 1909); Eng. trans., A Literary History of the English People (1914)[a]
- With Americans of Past and Present Days (1916)[b]
- What Me Befell: The Reminiscences of J. J. Jusserand (1933)
References
- Notes
- ^ Volume I awarded the Prix Bordin by the Académie Française in 1895.[7]
- ^ Awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for History.[8]
- Citations
- ^ a b "Jules Jusserand Expires". Free Lance-Star. Associated Press. 18 July 1932. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
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". Tacoma Times. 9 January 1904. Retrieved 27 November 2014 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ Roosevelt, Theodore (1913). Theodore Roosevelt, an Autobiography. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 45.
- ^ "Rock Creek Park: Monuments, Statues and Memorials". National Park Service. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ Grass, Michael E. (2014). "Best Obscure Memorial: Jules Jusserand Memorial". Washington City Paper.
- ^ "Prix Bordin". Académie Française (in French). Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ Fischer, Heinz-D; Fischer, Erika J. (2003). Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917–2000. Walter de Gruyter. p. 303. ISBN 978-3-11-093912-5.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 593.
