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Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand was born on 18 February 1855 in Lyon, France.
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Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand was born on 18 February 1855 in Lyon, France.
He was early attracted to the study of languages; he received a law degree in Paris, and two degrees at Lyon, in science and letters, for theses treating English subject matter; and he traveled to England in 1875 to perfect his English.
Jusserand considered himself a disciple of the eminent French historian, Hippolyte Taine, with whom he engaged in correspondence.
As a literary historian, he endeavored (with "honest, scrupulous research, with critical insight, human sympathy and grace of style, " in the words of William Lyons Phelps) to apply Taine's scientific principles in showing the close interdependence and relationship between English civilization and English literature.
His first important publication (1878) was an exhaustive critical study of the English theater before Shakespeare.
Jusserand entered the diplomatic service in 1876. Jean Jules Jusserand's career started in 1878 when, at the age of 23, he undertook the Foreign Affairs national competition. He was first appointed to assistant consul in London. In 1882 he was appointed as deputy to Minister of France in Tunisia, which at that time was a French protectorate, and where he would be in charge of the administrative organization of the protectorate.
In 1887 Jusserand came back to Paris. In 1898 he was named Plenipotentiary Minister to Copenhagen.
In 1902, during the presidency of Émile Loubet, he was named French ambassador to the United States and was based in Washington. He would represent France during the Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge administrations. He was a confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt and part of his "secret du roi" group.
During the first quarter of the 20th century that he was Ambassador in Washington, "he played a critical part in drawing the U. S. into the First World War".
During the Polish-Soviet War, Jusserand took part in a diplomatic mission to the Second Polish Republic. In 1919 he was involved with the Treaty of Versailles.
He died on 18 July 1932 at his home in Paris.
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(Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary...)
He was a Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques from 1925.
While in the United States, he married an American citizen, Eliza Richards.