Background
Bonnet, Henri was born in May 1888 in Chateauponsac, France. Son of J. Th. and Marie Therèse (Lascoux) Bonnet.
Bonnet, Henri was born in May 1888 in Chateauponsac, France. Son of J. Th. and Marie Therèse (Lascoux) Bonnet.
Educated Lycees de Tours et Paris, Universite de Paris, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris.
Professor history, University of Paris, 1912. Foreign editor, Ere Nouvelle, 1919. Member secretariat. League of Nations, 1920-1931.
Director International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, also secretary general Permanent Conference Hautes Etudes Internationales, also vice president Center of Studies of Foreign Policy in Paris, and member Superior Council of Scientific Research, 1931-1940.
Professor political science, Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes, New York, New New York Member Executive Committee ‘France Forever’ in the United States, 1941, vice chairman Chicago chapter, 1942, executive vice president national organization, 1943.
Commissioner for information Committee National Liberation, Algiers, 1943. Minister for information Provisional Government of French Republic, 1944.
Ambassador of France to the United States, 1944-1955.
Member editorial board of Free World, 1941. Special adviser World Citizens Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1941.
Married Helle Zervoudaki, August 29, 1932.