The second group of WLC participants from France were the industrialists. They were Louis Marlio, Marcel Bourgeois, Auguste Detœuf, and Ernest Mercier. Marlio, though working for the French energy industry, was likely the most academic among them and he also had a background in working for the League of Nations. He was entrusted with the mandate of becoming the first president of the Centre International d’Études pour la Rénovation du Libéralisme (CIRL) in 1939 following the WLC, and together with Baudin and Rüstow probably among the most enthusiastic champions of the term “neoliberalism.”

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 382