Jean Monnet - Early Years

Early Years

Monnet was born in Cognac, Charente, into a family of cognac merchants. At the age of sixteen, he abandoned his university entrance examinations part way through and moved to London, where he spent some years in the City of London with Mr. Chaplin, the agent of his father's company. Subsequently, he traveled widely – to Scandinavia, Russia, Egypt, Canada, and the United States – for the family business.

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