Henry de Jouvenel

Henry de Jouvenel des Ursins (5 April 1876 – 5 October 1935) was a French journalist and statesman.[1]

Henry de Jouvenel
Henri de Jouvenel, sénateur, ambassadeur de France à Rome (1933)
High Commissioner of the Levant
In office
1925–1926
Preceded byMaurice Sarrail
Succeeded byHenri Ponsot
Personal details
Born
Henry de Jouvenel des Ursins

5 April 1876
Paris, France
Died5 October 1935(1935-10-05) (aged 59)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Spouse(s)Sarah Boas (divorced)
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (divorced)
Childrenwith Boas:
--Bertrand de Jouvenel
with Colette:
--Colette de Jouvenel
Occupationdiplomat

Jouvenel became the French High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon on 23 December 1925 until 23 June 1926.[2]

Personal life

Henry de Jouvenel was born into a middle-class family of lawyers and politicians.[3] He was educated at the prestigious Collège Stanislas de Paris. According to his biographer Rudolph Binion:

Henry de Jouvenel never outgrew the spirit of his schooldays -- his humanism, his enthusiasm for ideas, the original blend of audacity and courtesy in his thinking, his dream of detecting and expressing unanimity amid discord. He matured, not by putting these things aside, but by adding to them.[4]

Jouvenel's first wife was Sarah Boas, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist. They had a son, Bertrand de Jouvenel, in 1903. Henri divorced Sarah in 1912. That same year he married the novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.[1] The couple had one daughter, Colette de Jouvenel, known to the family as Bel-Gazou ("beautiful babbling/chirping" in local dialect). They divorced in 1924 after Colette became involved romantically with Henry's son Bertrand. This affair became the subject of Colette's novel Le Blé en Herbe ("Green Wheat").

He is the brother of French journalist Robert de Jouvenel.

See also

References
  1. Henry de Jouvenel, additional. Retrieved 14 October 2014. text.
  2. World Statesmen – Syria.
  3. The aristocratic "particle" and a link to the older artistocratic family "Jouvenel des Ursins" (or Juvenal des Ursins) was added spuriously by Henry's father Léon de Jouvenel. (See Éric Delbecque, Bertrand de Jouvenel ou le Libéral désenchanté, thèse de doctorat en histoire, Paris: Institut d'études politiques, 2001, p. 29. Also see registre Affieux, 25 septembre 1811.)
  4. Binion, 1960, p. 124

Further reading
  • Rudolph Binion. Defeated Leaders: The Political Fate of Caillaux, Jouvenel, and Tardieu (1960) online pp. 119–97


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