François Fontaine
 François Fontaine    ( civil servant, author, ghostwriter) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 20 December 1917 | |||||||||||
| Died | 23 March 1996 (Age 78) | |||||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | Sciences Po | |||||||||||
High-positioned EEC-functionary. Collaborator and friend of Jean Monnet,and ghostwriter of his memoirs. Attended the 1969 Bilderberg meeting.
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François Fontaine was a French civil servant and writer who had a number of high positions in the EEC bureaucracy. A collaborator and friend of Jean Monnet, he attended the 1969 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
He had a Bachelor of Law. He was a graduate of the School of Political Sciences, Paris.[1]
Career
François Fontaine had a successful career as a high European official, in the wake of Jean Monnet. He met him in 1947 at the Planning Commission where he became his chief of staff. He then followed the "father of Europe" to Luxembourg, to the High Authority for Coal and Steel, then in 1955 was appointed director of the Information Office of the European Communities in Paris where worked until 1981.[2]
He drafted most of the text of Monnet's Memoirs, and also collaborated with Monnet as part of historical research in the early 1970s.[2]
He wrote a number of historical novels based on the Roman Empire.
Family
His son Pascal (born in 1948) wrote his own biography of Jean Monnet, published in 1988 under the title of The Inspirer.[3]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1969 | 9 May 1969 | 11 May 1969 | Denmark Hotel Marienlyst Elsinore | The 18th Bilderberg meeting, with 85 participants |
References
- ↑ https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Francois-Fontaine/3730
- ↑ a b https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1996/03/27/francois-fontaine_3731695_1819218.html
- ↑ Clifford P. Hackett, Who Wrote the Memoirs of Jean Monnet? An Intimate Account of an Historic Collaboration, Peter Lang, 2016
