Original: 138 -- 139 ) ] A closely related , but rejected , proposal by French bureaucrat Jean Monnet , the Monnet plan , would have given France control over the German coal areas of the Ruhr and Saar and used these resources to bring France to 150 % of pre-war industrial production .
Simplified: Monnet plan Jean Monnet of France said that France should control the German coal areas of the Ruhr and Saar and use it to rebuild French industry .