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Maurice Schumann

1911 - 1998

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Maurice Schumann (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis ʃuman]; 10 April 1911 – 9 February 1998) was a French politician, journalist, writer, and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou from 22 June 1969 to 15 March 1973. Schumann was a member of the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement. The son of an Alsatian Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother, he studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly and the Lycée Henri-IV. He converted to his mother's faith in 1937. He once said of France's fate when suffering the Allied bombing raids, '....and now we are reduced to the most atrocious fate: to be killed without killing back, to be killed by friends without being able to kill our enemies'. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Schumann is the 4,299th most popular writer (down from 3,845th in 2019), the 4,131st most popular biography from France (down from 3,804th in 2019) and the 522nd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maurice Schumann ranks 4,299 out of 7,302. Before him are Malika Oufkir, Herbert W. Franke, Petrus Borel, Pamela Colman Smith, Gerardo Diego, and Philip Arthur Fisher. After him are Stanislas Julien, Art Buchwald, Andrej Sládkovič, Elisabetta Dami, Andrei Bitov, and E. B. White.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Maurice Schumann ranks 221. Before him are Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Shoichi Sakata, Gavriil Kachalin, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Giuseppe Olmo, and Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh. After him are Willem Johan Kolff, Annibale Frossi, István Bibó, Szilárd Bogdánffy, Reidar Andersen, and José Augusto Brandão. Among people deceased in 1998, Maurice Schumann ranks 195. Before him are Gene Autry, Louis Hostin, William Gaddis, Mikio Oda, Marion Donovan, and Manuel Álvarez. After him are Johannes Kotkas, Wanda Jakubowska, Théodore Sindikubwabo, Kvitka Cisyk, Norberto Méndez, and Nicolas Bouvier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Schumann ranks 4,131 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Jazy (1936), Philippe Hériat (1898), Denis Lavant (1961), Petrus Borel (1809), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), and Frédéric Kanouté (1977). After him are Benjamin Pavard (1996), Stanislas Julien (1797), Marguerite Broquedis (1893), Jean-Louis Bruguès (1943), Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852), and Tristan Murail (1947).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Maurice Schumann ranks 522. Before him are Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924), Abel Bonnard (1883), Christiane Rochefort (1917), Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813), Philippe Hériat (1898), and Petrus Borel (1809). After him are Stanislas Julien (1797), Maurice Genevoix (1890), Pierre Emmanuel (1916), Rémy Belleau (1528), Georges Courteline (1858), and Pierre Daninos (1913).

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