Jean Jules Jusserand
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand ( born February 18, 1855 in Lyon, † July 18, 1932 in Paris) was a French diplomat and historian of literature.
Life
Jean Jules Jusserand was the first child of Jules Jusserand (1800-1871), a lawyer from long-established jeweler Lyons family, and his second wife, Marie Adrienne Tissot. Three siblings followed: Etienne (* 1856), Jeanne (* 1857) and Francica (* 1858). The family lived during his childhood in Saint- Haon -le- Châtel; the children went to school in Lyon, where the family also had a residence and spent the winter months. The four siblings received by the mother a profound Catholic education and music lessons. From the autumn of 1865 Jules Jusserand attended, run by priests Lyon boarding Les Chartreux. There he learned English and Italian. After his father's death in 1871, the successful student head of his family was. For three years he studied from 1872 Humanities and Natural Sciences and graduated in mind his law degree in Lyon. His broad study interest he sat in 1875 continued at a university in Paris, with an emphasis in law. In the autumn of that year he took part in an award competition for a post in the consular service, who took him as part of a preparatory year to Britain. There he learned to know country and people and began his dissertation preparation. The next year he got the desired Parisian post as élèves -consul, who, however, consisted mainly in the making of copies. The same time he worked on his two dissertations, from which he graduated in 1877 respectively 1878. 1878 began his time as a budding Consul at the Consulate General at Finsbury Circus in London. After two years' residence, he returned to Paris, where he became personal secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy- Saint- Hilaire, who was a specialist Aristotle. After 1881 an analysis was the good pleasure of his superiors to a possible French occupation of Tunis, he was transferred from the economic to diplomatic and consular department of the sent in December for three months to report to Tunis. On his return Jusserand was head of the newly erected by Charles de Freycinet Department of the Tunisian protectorate, as he now was considered a Tunisia expert, as he should have known before 1880 nothing about the area. In the following five years of activity there, the area of responsibility expanded to other African regions as well as Indochina.
In addition to his family responsibilities, he also continued continued his academic studies. Guillaume Guizot offered him in 1885 to read at the Collège de France, Chaucer's contemporaries as well as to the English novel before Walter Scott. Both lecture series have been published. In addition to its own publications to the English literary history he initiated in 1887, the series " Les Grand Écrivains Français ", whose editors he belonged. He also wrote the band to Pierre de Ronsard. End of the year he was transferred as an envoy to the London Embassy to services of William H. Waddington, a position which he held until June 1890. This was followed again eight years in Paris, first as responsible for European operations sous- directeur du Nord, and four as head of legation in Copenhagen. As sous- directeur du Nord it was a certain Anglophilia that opens in a dislike of Tsarist Russia, assumed. For this reason, he was instructed by Jean Casimir - Perier to postpone the publication of his book A Literary History of the English People to a later date. Jusserands task as envoyé extraordinaire et ministre plénipotentiaire in Copenhagen was to warn of impending danger on the part of the German Empire. During his stay in Denmark, he was invited by the French ambassador Gustave Oliver Lannes de Montebello to Saint Petersburg, where he had an interview with Tsar Nicholas II and his wife in March 1899.
Meanwhile, used Jusserand an international scholarly correspondence and knew many well-known cultural sizes. On October 14, 1894, he had married, born and bred in France, daughter of an American banker. He probably Elise Richards and her sister Marian met in connection with the translation of his books into English.
As of February 1903, he was French ambassador in Washington, DC He is regarded as one of those who persuaded the U.S. government to participate in the First World War. In 1917 he won with his work With Americans of Past and Present Days the first Pulitzer Prize in the history section. Four years later he was elected president of the American Historical Association ( AHA). Beginning of 1925, the couple returned to France, where they took up residence in Paris and Saint- Haon -le- Châtel. Jusserand continued to write and published a book on contemporary history: Le Sentiment américain pendant la guerre. His memoirs were posthumously What Me Befell and published only in the UK.
Works
- De vel Josepho Exoniensi Iscano: accedunt De bello trojano poematis liber I necnon, notulæ, sæculo XIII conscriptæ, nunc primum e codice manuscripto in nationality Bibliotheca asservato depromptæ, ( doctoral thesis at the University of Lyons, Joseph of Exeter) Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1877.
- Le théatre en Angleterre depuis la conquete jusqu'aux prédécesseurs immédiats de Shakespeare, ( Dissertation on the English theater), Paris: E. Leroux, 1878.
- Les Anglais au moyen âge: La Vie et les routes nomad d' Angleterre au siècle XIV ( 2 volumes, 1884-1893 ) Vol 1
- Le roman anglais (1886 )
- Le Roman au temps de Shakespeare ( 1887)
- Les Anglais au moyen âge: L' Épopée mystique de William Langland (1893 )
- Histoire de la littérature anglaise abrégée (1896 )
- Shakespeare en France sous l' ancien régime (1898 )
- Les jeux d' exercice sports et dans l' ancienne France ( 1901)
- Ronsard (1913 )
- With Americans of past and present days (1916 )
- Amis de la France (1917 )
- The school for ambassadors and other essays (1924 )
- Grotius Etudie par les secrétaires Ambassade d' en Français 1711 (1929)
- Le sentiment américain pendant la guerre (1931 )