- Jean Jules Jusserand
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (
February 18 ,1855 –July 18 ,1932 ) was a Frenchauthor and diplomat. He was the French ambassador to theUnited States duringWorld War I .Born at
Lyon , Jusserand entered the diplomatic service in 1876. Two years later, he became consul inLondon . After an interval spent inTunis (Tunisia was at that time a French protectorate), he returned to London in 1887 as a member of the French Embassy.In 1890, Jusserand became French minister at
Copenhagen . In 1902, he was transferred to Washington, where he remained until 1925.During the
Polish-Soviet War , Jusserand took part in a diplomatic mission to theSecond Polish Republic .Publications
Jusserand was a close student of English literature who produced some lucid and vivacious monographs on comparatively little-known subjects:
*"Le Théâtre en Angleterre depuis la conquête jusqu'aux prédécesseurs immédiats de Shakespeare" (1878)
*"Les Anglais au Moyen Âge: la vie nomade et les routes d'Angleterre au XIVe siècle" (1884; Eng. trans., "English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages", by LT Smith, 1889)
*"Le Roman au temps de Shakespeare" (1887; Eng. trans. by Miss E. Lee, 1890)
*"A French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II" (1892), from the unpublished papers of the count de Cominges.
*"L'Épopée de Langland" (1893; Eng. trans., Piers Plowman, 1894).
*"Histoire littéraire du peuple anglais" (vol. 1, 1893; vol. 2, 1904; vol. 3, 1909; Eng. trans., "A Literary History of the English People", by G.P. Putnam, 1914).
*"With Americans of Past and Present Days" (1916), for which he earned the firstPulitzer Prize for History .
*"What Me Befell : The Reminiscences of J. J. Jusserand" (1933).References
*1911
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