J. J. Jusserand

Jean Jules Jusserand (1855–1932) was a French diplomat and historian of England. Educated at Lyon and Paris, he entered the foreign service in 1876, served in London, Copenhagen and Tunis, and was French ambassador to the United States from 1902 to 1925, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt and a central figure in Franco-American relations during the First World War. His historical works, written in French and translated into English, include English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare and A Literary History of the English People. His With Americans of Past and Present Days won the first Pulitzer Prize for history in 1917.