Pierre-Jean Rémy

Pierre-Jean Rémy studied at Lycée Condorcet, École nationale d'administration and Sciences Po. The recorded working language is French. Positions recorded include director and President of the National Library of France. Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the National Order of Merit, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.

• Name — Pierre-Jean Rémy • Birth Name — Jean-Pierre Angremy • Born — 21 March 1937 • Birthplace — Angoulême, France • Died — 28 April 2010 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Novelist Essayist

Rémy was born in Angoulême, Charente, where he received his primary and secondary education. His studies at Lycée Condorcet were steeped in Latin, Greek, and literature. Beginning in 1955, Rémy studied in Paris at the Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'études politiques), the Faculty of Law (Faculté de droit) of the University of Paris (licence-economic science), and the Sorbonne (sociology). As a Fulbright program scholar, Rémy served as an assistant to the sociologist Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University in Massachusetts from 1958-59 before returning to Paris to finish his studies at the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in 1963 (class of "Saint-Just").