Jean-François Revel was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics. He was a... Wikipedia
Born: January 19, 1924, Marseille, France
Died: April 30, 2006 (age 82 years), Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Children: Nicolas Revel, Matthieu Ricard, and Ève Ricard
Spouse: Claude Sarraute (m. 1967–2006) and Yahne Le Toumelin