{{Short description|French writer and journalist}} thumb| '''Robert de Saint Jean''' (1901–1987) was a French writer and journalist. He was the companion of the French-speaking American writer Julien Green. Like Green, he kept a diary which he eventually published. It provides insight into French society and cultural life over several decades.
He worked, in particular, for ''Paris-Soir'', ''le Parisien libéré'', and ''Paris Match''.
When France fell to the Nazis in 1940, he was deputy chief of staff to the French minister of information. His writing had made him a personal enemy of German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Green arranged for him to gain entry to Portugal and then transfer to the US.<ref>{{cite journal | journal = Humanities | title = Julien Green: The End of a World | access-date = 29 January 2024 | url = https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/julyaugust/feature/julien-green-the-end-world | volume =33|issue=4|date= July–August 2012 }}</ref>
In 1984 he received the Prix Marcel Proust. He also worked as editor for the Plon publishing house.
== Selected works == *1934: ''La vraie révolution de Roosevelt'', Éditions Grasset *1941: ''Démocratie, beurre et canons'', Maison de la France, New York; [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/F/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/France/_Texts/RSJDBC/home.html online transcription] *1936: ''Le Feu sacré'', Éditions Gallimard *1967: ''Julien Green par lui-même'', Éditions du Seuil *1974: ''Journal d'un journaliste'' *1975: ''Moins cinq'' *1983: ''Passé pas mort'', Grasset *1990: ''Julien Green'', with Luc Estang
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== External links == * [http://www.babelio.com/auteur/Robert-de-Saint-Jean/190534 Robert de Saint Jean] on Banelio * [http://e-gide.blogspot.fr/2009/12/journal-de-robert-de-saint-jean.html Journal de Robert de Saint-Jean] on e-gide {{Authority control}}
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