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Jean-Pierre Renouard (July 9, 1922 – June 30, 2014) was a French writer. == Biography == Jean Pierre Nicolas Renouard was born in Paris in 1922 to a family of French "grands bourgeois". His ancestors include Armand Bertin, Jules Bapst and Renouard du Tinel. Arman Bertin was the founder and owner of the "Journal des débats" which was the only daily newspaper during the French Revolution of 1789 and further during the whole 19th century. Ingres painted a famous portrait called "monsieur Bertin", which is now at le Louvre. Jules Bapst was the jeweller to the French Royal family. One of his masterpieces, the crown of king Charles Xth, was stolen from le Louvre in 1960 and was never found. Lastly, Renouard du Tinel was a giant swinging a short tree and drinking from a barrel, who fought the Moors (Arabs) along the South coast of France around the year 1000. His grand mother, Cecile Patinot, gave Joseph Kessel his first assignment for the "Journal des débats". His studies at Janson de Sailly high school were interrupted in May 1940 by the German invasion. His family, having settled in the South of France, Jean Pierre and his younger brother Jacques started resistance activities in September 1941 by delivering several suitcases of hand guns to Jean Guyot, aka Gallois, the leader of several resistance networks. Eventually members of the Sosies network led by Dominique Ponchardier, the two brothers were arrested in May 1944 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at the Fort du Hâ in Bordeaux before being deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.() His brother Jacques, died at age 20, on 31 December 1944 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Jean-Pierre Nicolas Renouard was freed by British troops from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945.()() After a long recovery, he left for the United States and studied at the School of Business Administration of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. There followed an international career of forty years in the oil industry. From 1975 to 1987 he was president of Copechim France, a company trading in crude oil. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean-Pierre Renouard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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