{"id":1099,"date":"2010-06-22T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:39:38","slug":"prix-guizot-1996","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/the-calvados-general-councils-guizot-prize\/prix-guizot-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1996 Fran\u00e7ois Guizot Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Calvados County Council's second Guizot Prize was awarded to \u00c9ric Roussel<\/strong> for his book Jean Monnet<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has a degree in literature and a doctorate in law, and has been a critic for Le Figaro since 1985. He is the author of several works on contemporary history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For John Kennedy, he was \u00abthe statesman of the world\u00bb; de Gaulle saw him as the \u2019inspiration\u00ab behind the process of European integration; according to Henry Kissinger, no one has had a greater impact on our time. Yet little is known about the personality and exact role of one of the giants of the century, Jean Monnet. Successively cognac merchant, promoter of the Allied coordination effort during the Great War, deputy secretary-general of the League of Nations, banker in America and China in the 1930s, first commissioner-general of the Plan (1947-1952), initiator in 1950 of the Schuman plan that laid the foundation stone for the Europe of Six, president of the High Authority of the ECSC, leader until 1975 of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe, this man of universal influence eludes the usual political and ideological classifications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In order to reconstruct his astonishing career, \u00c9ric Roussel has interviewed a large number of witnesses, delved into French and foreign archives and, for the first time, exploited the famous \u00abpink notes\u00bb, an unpublished diary in which the father of Europe recorded his thoughts and recounted his conversations with people such as Roosevelt, Adenauer, Churchill, Brandt, Pompidou, Healt, Henry Kissinger, Val\u00e9ry Giscard d'Estaing and many others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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More than sixty years of European and French history are thus evoked, and certain crucial episodes - such as the events that took place in Algiers in 1943 - appear in a new light. Above all, the true profile of a man who was both a visionary and a pragmatist emerges, whose non-conformist views changed the lives of Europeans and whose methods remain surprisingly relevant today as we struggle to imagine the post-Maastricht era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Source: Extract from \u00c9ditions Fayard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published by Fayard<\/td><\/tr>
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Year of publication<\/div>\n<\/td>
1996<\/td><\/tr>
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Number of pages<\/div>\n<\/td>
1010<\/td><\/tr>
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ISBN<\/div>\n<\/td>
2-213-03153-3<\/td><\/tr>
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Website<\/div>\n<\/td>
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Le deuxi\u00e8me Prix Guizot du Conseil g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Calvados a \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00c9ric Roussel pour son ouvrage Jean Monnet. Licenci\u00e9 \u00e8s-lettres, docteur en droit, critique au Figaro depuis 1985, il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages d’histoire contemporaine. Pour John Kennedy, il \u00e9tait \u00ab\u00a0l’homme d’\u00c9tat du monde\u00a0\u00bb ; de Gaulle voyait en lui l’ \u00ab\u00a0inspirateur\u00a0\u00bb du […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":892,"parent":9205,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1099","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12138,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1099\/revisions\/12138"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}