Professor Paul Joseph Mantoux (1877–1956)

Paul Mantoux (14 April 1877 – 14 December 1956) was a historian and has written about the

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. He was a Co-Founder of the

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(now IHEID) and interpreter for

Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a ...

at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. One of his children was the economist

Étienne Mantoux Étienne Mantoux (5 February 1913 – 29 April 1945) was a French economist, born in Paris. He was the son of Paul Mantoux. He is probably best known for his book ''The Carthaginian Peace, or the Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes'' published ...

Works

* ''La Révolution industrielle au XVIIIe siècle. Essai sur les commencements de la grande industrie moderne en Angleterre''. Paris: Société de librairie et d'édition, Pp. 544 ** English translation: ''The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England'' tr. Marjorie Vernon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, 539 pp. École Normale Supérieure alumni 1877 births 1956 deaths French male non-fiction writers Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies {{France-historian-stub