Jean Guitton (August 18, 1901 – March 21, 1999) was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian.
He studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1920.
He finished his philosophical studies in the early 1920s and taught in a number of secondary schools.
[3] Invited as an observer to the ecumenical council of Vatican II, the first lay person to be granted this honor, he would become a close friend of Pope Paul VI.
During his life, he was also awarded the Great Cross of the National Order of Merit, Commander of the Légion d'Honneur and of the Arts and Letters Medal.