Background
François de Clermont-Tonnerre was born on September 19, 1906 in Paris, France. Both his father, Louis de Clermont-Tonnerre and his mother, Jeanne de Kergorlay, were aristocrats.
François de Clermont-Tonnerre was born on September 19, 1906 in Paris, France. Both his father, Louis de Clermont-Tonnerre and his mother, Jeanne de Kergorlay, were aristocrats.
He graduated from the École Nationale des Chartes in Paris.
He co-authored Le manifeste paysan: essai d"une doctrine humaniste appliquée à l"agriculture française with Pierre Mathé, published in 1937. He died on December 2, 1979 in Paris, France.
He joined the French Agrarian and Peasant Party, an agrarian conservative political party He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Somme from 1936 to 1942.