Jean Monnet: The driver behind European integration
Henry Kissinger: “Very few people have played such a role in world history.” Jean Monnet (1888-1979) born between the Cognac barrels of his family in the eponymous city. He grew up in the time of the first train and Otto Bismarck. He passed away in a time of the first Space Shuttle. Jean Monnet travelled around the world from a young age to The City in London and Wall Street and from Canada to Shanghai working for the Cognac family…