[1] He was the French High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon from 23 December 1925 until 23 June 1926.

[2] Henry de Jouvenel was born into a middle-class family of lawyers and politicians.

According to his biographer Rudolph Binion: Jouvenel's first wife was Sarah Boas, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist.

[1] The couple had one daughter, Colette de Jouvenel, known to the family as Bel-Gazou ("beautiful babbling/chirping" in local dialect).

This affair became the subject of Colette's novel Le Blé en Herbe ("Green Wheat").