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Mar 28, 1905 Saint Gaudens, Occitania, France Died on 19 Dec 1975 (aged 70)
French philosopher
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About René Maheu
- René Gabriel Eugene Maheu (March 28, 1905 in Saint-Gaudens – December 19, 1975 in Paris) was a French professor of philosophy and the sixth Director-General of UNESCO.
- He was a close friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. He was a cultural attaché in London (1936-1939) and after teaching in Morocco (1940–1942) during World War II, he occupied a managerial post in the France-Afrique press agency in Algiers, before joining the Executive Office of the Resident-General in Rabat.
- In 1946 he entered UNESCO as Chief, Division of Free Flow of Information.
- In 1949 Jaime Torres Bodet appointed him Director of his Executive Office.
- In 1954 he became Assistant Director-General and was UNESCO’s representative at UN Headquarters from 1955 to 1958.
- Promoted Deputy Director-General in 1959, Acting Director-General in 1961, and in 1962–1974 Director-General, for two successive mandates.
