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Jean Bichelonne
Jean Bichelonne (24 December 1904 – 22 December 1944) was a French businessman and member of the Vichy government that governed France during World War II following the occupation of France by Nazi Germany.
Early life.
Jean Bichelonne was born on December 24, 1904 in Bordeaux. He graduated from the École Polytechnique.
Career.
Bichelonne gained an early reputation for his brilliant organisational skill as well as his photographic memory. 
In 1937, he became member of the cabinet of the minister for public
the likes of Jacques Barnaud, François Lehideux and Pierre Pucheu, Bichelonne was a member of a group of technocrats who held important positions in the early days of the Vichy regime. Like Pucheu he was devotee of Saint-Simonianism, the belief in industrialisation as the motor of progress in society, a belief that was not shared by the rural traditionalist Philippe Pétain.
In the government of Pierre Laval the Ministry of Industry was headed by Jean Bichelonne with Henri Lafond as General Secretary for Energy and René Norguet (1888–1968) as