Background
Chevalier was born in Cérilly, Allier, educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure and Oxford University and taught at the Faculty of Letters in Grenoble.
Chevalier was born in Cérilly, Allier, educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure and Oxford University and taught at the Faculty of Letters in Grenoble.
École Normale Supérieure.
He was a specialist of Plato and author of many books, mainly about the history of philosophy. The anti-clerical Collaborationists opposed him however, and he had to step down (he was replaced by the historian Jerôme Carcopino). His reform was eventually abolished and the "Ecoles Normales" were recreated.
A friend of Lord Halifax, he was also a Minister for education in 1941 under the Vichy Regime, and was as such the only member of the government to be present at the funeral of the philosopher Henri Bergson.