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- Title
Formation and Foreign Policy: Biography and Ego-Histoire.
- Authors
Young, Robert J.
- Abstract
‘International’ history has grown from a time when ‘diplomatic’ history focused mainly on diplomats into a sub-discipline that makes connections between foreign policy and every thread of a nation's human and material fabric. Welcome as this development has been, the human face is sometimes lost in this struggle for greater breadth and depth. This article explores two ideas. The most important addresses the connection between the foreign policy views of Jules Jusserand and Louis Barthou, and their respective formations—the former an ambassador before, during and after the First World War, the latter a sometime foreign minister during and after that war. The lesser idea touches upon the ego-histoire of their biographer, whose reading of them might similarly have emerged from what, in his case, was a post-1945 Canada-based formation.
- Subjects
FRANCE; FOREIGN ministers (Cabinet officers); BIOGRAPHIES; FRENCH diplomats; BIOGRAPHIES of diplomats; STATESMEN -- Biography; BARTHOU, Louis, 1862-1934; JUSSERAND, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932; DIPLOMATIC history; FRENCH history, 1914-1940
- Publication
French History, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 2, p144
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crq027