Jacques Chastenet
Jacques Albert Antoine Guillaume Chastenet de Castaing (born April 20, 1893 in Paris , † February 7, 1978 ibid) was a French historian , diplomat and journalist .
Life
Chastenet was born in 1893 as the son of the politician and Senator Guillaume Chastenet de Castaing . He attended the Lycée Condorcet and then began studying history and law at the University of Paris and at the École libre des Sciences politiques , which he graduated in 1913. During the First World War he served as a liaison officer with the Americans. After the war he received his doctorate in 1918 and began a diplomatic career as an attaché . In 1920 he became general secretary of the Inter-Allied High Committee for the Rhineland .
After spending a few years abroad as the embassy secretary, he returned to France in 1923 and became a journalist. Chastenet wrote for L'Opinion until 1930 and then for the Revue politique et parlementaire until 1932 . As early as 1931 he was co-editor of the daily Le Temps , which had to stop its publication in 1942 due to the events of the war. From 1934 to 1940 he was also Vice President of the Paris Press Association. During World War II , Chastenet was a member of the French military mission in Egypt and advised the Union française between 1952 and 1958.
Chastenet wrote numerous books on the history and politics of France as well as biographies on George Wellington (1945), Raymond Poincaré (1948), Elizabeth I (1953) and Winston Churchill (1956) and Léon Gambetta (1968). He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1947 and a member of the Académie française in 1956 .
honors and awards
- 1947: Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
- 1956: Member of the Académie française
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
- Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Croix de guerre 1914-1918
- Ordre des Palmes Académiques
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- Du Sénat constitué en Cour de Justice , Rousseau, 1918
- William Pitt , Fayard, Paris, 1941
- Godoy, Prince de la Paix , Fayard, Paris, 1943
- Vingt ans d'histoire diplomatique, 1919-1939 , Le Milieu du monde, 1945
- Wellington , Fayard, Paris, 1945
- Le Parlement d'Angleterre , Fayard, Paris, 1946.
- Les Grandes heures de Guyenne , Colbert, 1946.
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Le Siècle de Victoria , Fayard, Paris, 1947.
- German by Adolf Heine-Geldern: Victoria and her age , Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1959.
- Raymond Poincaré , Julliard, Paris, 1948.
- La France de M. Fallières , Fayard, Paris, 1949
- Histoire de la IIIe République, Tome I. L'Enfance de la Troisième (1870−1879) , Hachette, Paris, 1952
- Elisabeth Ière , Fayard, Paris, 1953
- Histoire de la IIIe République, Tome II. La République des Républicains (1879-1893) , Hachette, Paris, 1954
- Histoire de la IIIe République, Tome III. La République triomphante (1893−1906) , Hachette, Paris, 1955
- Winston Churchill , Fayard, Paris, 1956
- Histoire de la IIIe République, Tome IV. Jours inquiets et jours sanglants (1906-1918) , Hachette, Paris, 1957
- Quand le bœuf montait sur le toit , Fayard, Paris, 1958
- Histoire de la IIIe République, Tome V. Les Années d'illusion (1918−1931) , Hachette, Paris, 1960
- La vie quotidienne en Angleterre au début du Règne de Victoria, 1837-1851 , Hachette, Paris, 1961 ( La vie quotidienne )
- Histoire de la IIIe République, Tome VI. Déclin de la Troisième (1931-1938) , Hachette, Paris, 1962
- Histoire de la IIIe République, Tome VII. Le drame final (1938-1940) , Hachette, Paris, 1963
- La guerre de 1914-1918 , Hachette, Paris, 1964
- L'Angleterre d'aujourd'hui , Calmann-Lévy, Calmann-Lévy, 1965
- La vie quotidienne en Espagne au temps de Goya , Hachette, Paris, 1966
- Histoire de l'Espagne , Hachette, Paris, 1967
- En avant vers l'Ouest. La conquête des États-Unis par les Américains , Perrin, Paris, 1967
- Léon Gambetta , Fayard, Paris, 1968
- De Pétain à de Gaulle , Fayard, Paris, 1970
- Cent ans de République, 9 vol. , Tallandier, Paris, 1970
- Quatre fois vingt ans , Plon, Paris, 1974
Web links
- Literature by and about Jacques Chastenet in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chastenet, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Castaing, Jacques Chastenet de; Castaing, Jacques Albert Antoine Guillaume Chastenet de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian, diplomat and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1978 |
| Place of death | Paris |