First, Ludwik Rajchman, a friend of Jean Monnet's, went to China on a mission for the League of Nations. During his visit, he observed the problems confronting the country and suggested that Monnet to go to work there. Monnet arrived in China for the first time in 1933 for a brief visit. Later, the brother-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. T. V. Soong, in his capacity as minister and special advisor in the Kuomingtang, met Monnet during a trip to Europe. On Rajchman's recommendation, Dr.

In 1929, Jean Monnet's life took a new direction. In the course of a dinner party given at his home, this "hardened bachelor" [Roussel, p. 133] met the wife of one of his collaborators, Francisco Giannini. Jean Monnet fell in love with Silvia, n?e Bondini, a 22-year-old Italian woman and his love was quickly reciprocated. But France did not allow divorce.

With the signature of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the League of Nations, the ancester of the United Nations, was created. Because of his efficiency observed during the war years in the creation and operation of the inter-Ally organizations and his experience in international cognac sales, Jean Monnet now disposed of an extensive network of relations and a solid acquaintance with the post-war financial and economic decision makers.

In a letter of 18th December 1923, Jean Monnet sent his resignation to Sir Eric Drummond: "As I indicated to you, family obligations make it necessary for me to resign as Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations...." [Roussel, p. 104]. As it did before the war, the Monnet company was indeed going through a crisis which was affecting the entire brandy sector of Cognac. In 1923, Marie-Louise Monnet travelled to Geneva to ask her brother to come and take over the firm.

On his return to the Charente region in 1924, Jean Monnet began to reestablish the financial balance of the family firm, but after his experience in London during the War and his time at the League of Nations, he sensed that his calling was no longer in the cognac business. He turned over the administration of the business to his cousins and considered entering international activities once again. At that point, he was contacted by a U.S. investment firm based in New York, Blair & Co.

In 1914, Jean Monnet was twenty-six years old. On his return from business trips to Canada via London and Paris, he learned of the general mobilization at the Poitiers Train Station. After a month of fighting to the disadvantage of the Allied Forces, Jean Monnet quickly realized "...that the forms of power had changed, that the war machine was being called on to grind down all the resources of a nation and that it was necessary to invent unprecedented forms of organization...

Jean Monnet left the Cognac High School when he was sixteen, after he had taken the first part of his university-entrance examinations. "I never liked school. I refused, or some difficulty kept me from learning a formal science by heart. When my parents wanted to put me in boarding school in Pons, I became ill." [M?moires, p. 39]. Monnet's "native intelligence" would flourish more in the cognac business than in a school room: "..

the age of sixteen, Jean Monnet was trained by an agent of the Monnet company, Mr. Chaplin, who introduced him to the City of London and the world of business. From 1904 to 1906, the young Monnet learned the job of wine merchant as well as the language of the business, English. The stay was a turning point for him: "That was where I learned about co-authored action, of which I did not see such a serious example in Cognac or anywhere in France." [M?moires, p. 46].

Jean Monnet was born on 9th November 1888 in Cognac in the Charente d?partement. He came from a family of cognac merchants. In 1897, his father, Jean-Gabriel Monnet, became manager of a Cognac cooperative, the Cognac Wingrowers Company (SPCV), which then changed its name to J.G. Monnet & Co. A family of simple, rural origins, the Monnets quickly became wealthy with the father's enterprise in the cognac trade.

First, because of his training and his early professional activities, Jean Monnet was strongly influenced by the Anglo-Saxon model of civilization (cf. Question 4), initially in the City of London as of 1904, then in Canada and finally in the United States: "But what I discovered in America was something more, and it had another name. It was expansion....The predominant American type was not that of the speculator, but that of the entrepreneur.

Jean Monnet died on 16th March 1979 in his home at Houjarray, Yvelines, at the age of ninety-one. His funeral was held in the Montfort-l'Amaury Church and he was buried in the cemetery at Bazoches-sur-Guyvonne. Nine years later, at the instigation of the Friends of Jean Monnet Association and by decision of President Fran?ois Mitterrand, Jean Monnet's ashes were transfered to the Panth?on on 9th November 1988: a century after his birth.

On her husband's death, Silvia left the family home to live in Rome near her brother and considered selling the house to the European Parliament. The Parliament acquired the house in 1982 and worked on its restoration from 1984 to 1987. Founded in 1986, the Friends of Jean Monnet Association began refurnishing the house in order to recreate the atmosphere in which Jean Monnet and his collaborators designed the ECSC.

In December 1939, Jean Monnet assumed his duties in London as President of the Franco-British Coordination Committee. The object of the Committee was to coordinate the action of five permanent executive offices which had been created on 18th October 1939 by an agreement signed by Daladier and Chamberlain: those in charge of fresh supplies, arms and raw materials, fuel, aeronautics and maritime transport.

No. They are homonyms and both were owners of houses with a vast garden located west of Paris. An Impressionist painter, Claude Monet lived in Giverny in the Eure d?partement, while Jean Monnet's house is in the small hamlet of Houjarray near Bazoches-sur-Guyonne in the Yvelines d?partement. One marked the history of art and the other marked history.

Young Jean Monnet had fragile health. In 1913, at the age of twenty-five, he had hardly recovered from appendicitis when he came down with typhoid fever. But more importantly, the recruitment lists of young men in the 1904 class in Cognac show that Jean Monnet was turned down for military service following a medical examination which revealed lung problems. In his M?moires, Monnet explained: "I was turned down for health reasons and no responsibility awaited me at home.

After Marshall P?tain came to power and signed the Armistice which ended the war between France and Germany, Jean Monnet was still in London and did not for a moment consider returning to his country.

the beginning, the two men belonged to the same generation and both were men of distinction. But while Jean Monnet came from a rural background in the Charente and became wealthy in business, Charles de Gaulle came from the urban, liberal and Catholic middle class, less rich and more cultivated.

In 1950, as the world was plunged in the Cold War and Germany had been divided since 1949, Jean Monnet had no illusions about the future of Europe: "...another war will come soon if we do nothing. Germany will not be the cause, but she will be the reason. She must stop being the reason and on the contrary become a link. Only France can currently take the initiative.

It was once printed (erroneously) that I met Jean at an “Open Mic Night”. That’s not true. Jean was a life-long professional musician who worked in bands as well as solo, almost from the same age that I did. She actually wrote a song called "Power" that was recorded by the Temptations in 1980. When I met her she was playing guitar and singing at a cafe in Santa Fe. I started going in on a regular basis, we got to know each other, and eventually began dating.

Answer. Very little or nothing. He does refer to the King of the Mongols, and to a King from beyond the Black Sea. Most of the discussion about China relates to a verse from the Bible that mentions an army of 200 Million. If the prediction is very specific, it is probably bogus. Nostradamus almost always concealed his meaning in anagrams, symbolism, and mythological allusions. (There are exceptions, however, see below.) These articles almost never give a citation to the original verse.