Étienne Mantoux
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Étienne Mantoux (5 February, 1913 – 29 April, 1945) was a French economist and son of Paul Mantoux. He is probably best well known for his book The Carthaginian Peace, or the Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes published two years after it was completed and one year after his death. In it, he sought to demonstrate that much of John Maynard Keynes' beliefs about the consequences for Germany of the Treaty of Versailles as expressed in The Economic Consequences of the Peace were wrong.
In opposition to Keynes he held that justice demanded that Germany should pay for the whole damage caused by the war, and he set out to prove that many of Keynes' forecasts were not verified by subsequent events.
Montoux was killed in action eight days before Germany unconditionally surrendered on 7th May 1945 whilst fighting with the Free French Forces in Bavaria.
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- Conduct of War (1789-1961): A Study of the French, Industrial, Russian Revolutions on War and its Conduct (1961) Major General J. F. C. Fuller (reprint 1962) Rutgers University Press pp. 222, 223
