Volume 25, Number 18 · November 23, 1978
Papa Europe
By Robert O. Paxton
Memoirs
by Jean Monnet, translated by Richard Mayne
Doubleday, 544 pp., $12.95
It is hard to tell what Jean Monnet's eventual reputation will be. At the moment, his name is enough of a household word to have appeared in the Sunday, March 12, New York Times crossword puzzle: forty-four down, 'originator of the Common Market.' The American diplomat Robert Murphy considered Jean Monnet 'the most influential man in France of his generation, …in many respects more remarkable than de Gaulle himself.' Yet Jean Monnet was always more celebrated outside France than within. Although these memoirs reached the French best-seller list for thirteen weeks in 1976, there was virtual silence in the book columns. It was as if Monnet's voice had become a mere object of nostalgia.
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