Jacques Andreani | |
Office: | French ambassador to the United States |
President: | François Mitterrand |
Term Start: | 1989 |
Term End: | 1995 |
Predecessor: | Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie |
Successor: | François Bujon de l'Estang |
Birth Date: | 22 November 1929 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Death Place: | Pornic, France |
Nationality: | French |
Alma Mater: | Sciences-Po Paris, ÉNA |
Profession: | Diplomat |
Jacques Andreani (November 22, 1929 - July 25, 2015) was French ambassador to Egypt, Italy and the United States.[1]
Jacques Andreani was born in Paris.He graduated from the Sciences Po, ENA.From there, after working one year in Paris to learn basic Russian and to study Eastern European problems, he was assigned to Moscow, where he stayed during some of the most difficult periods of the Cold War – the construction of the Berlin wall and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.He taught at the University of Clermont-Ferrand from 1996 to 1997, at The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center from 1997 to 1998, and at LUISS, from 2000 to 2005.
He married Donatella Monterisi, who had been an American Field Service exchange student at Orange High School in 1962.[3] He married her on March 23, 1981 and they had two children: Fabrice Andreani and Marie-Emmanuelle Andreani. He previously had another two children: Olivia Andreani and, from his first marriage to Huguette de Riols de Fonclare.[4]