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Jacques Soustelle was born on 3 February, 1912 in Montpellier, France, is a French politician. Discover Jacques Soustelle's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 3 February 1912
Birthday 3 February
Birthplace Montpellier, France
Date of death 6 August, 1990
Died Place Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Nationality France

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1912

Jacques Soustelle (3 February 1912 – 6 August 1990) was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939.

Soustelle and his followers opposed any compromise with anticolonial activists in Algeria in the Algerian War.

1935

An anti-fascist, he was general-secretary in 1935 of the French Union of Intellectuals against Fascism.

Soustelle developed an interest in Ethnology while working at the Musée de l'Homme under Paul Rivet.

Rivet sent him to Mexico, after Soustelle became an Agrégé, to study the Otomi people.

Soustelle wrote his first major book Mexique, Terre Indienne (Mexico is Indian) about his time with the Otomi.

1940

After the Armistice of 22 June 1940, he left Mexico to join the Free French Forces (FFL) in London.

1941

Charles de Gaulle charged him with a diplomatic mission in Latin America (1941), to set up support committees for Free France, to cut short the diplomatic efforts of Petainists throughout the continent.

He headed the intelligence service Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action (BCRA).

1942

He joined the Comité national français, (Government of the Free France, fighting Vichy France, and the Axis powers ) in London, then ran the commissariat national à l’Information (1942).

1943

Appointed to head the Special Services Branch (DGHS) in Algiers in (1943–1944) by the French Committee of National Liberation), He was Commissioner of the Republic (prefect) in Bordeaux then in the Liberation deputy of Mayenne.

1945

In 1945, he served first as Minister of Information, then as Minister of the Colonies.

Soustelle was elected to France's National Assembly (France's lower House) three times, first representing Mayenne in 1945–46, then the Rhône (1951–58) as a Gaullist, and from 1973 to 1978 as a member of the centrist Mouvement Réformateur.

1947

From 1947 to 1951, he served as Secretary General of the Gaullist party Rassemblement du Peuple Français (RPF) and was one De Gaulle's closest counsellors.

1955

He was nominated Governor General of Algeria by Pierre Mendès France in 1955–56, favouring the integration of the Muslim community in the French Departments along the Mediterranean coast.

1958

Thanks to Soustelle's support during the May 1958 Algiers revolt, De Gaulle returned to power.

Though he believed he would become Algeria Secretary, Soustelle was only named Information Minister in June 1958.

1959

In 1959, he was appointed Minister of State in charge of Overseas Departments by De Gaulle.

He was unharmed after three Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) members attempted to assassinate him by shooting his car on the Place de l'Étoile in Paris.

He asked De Gaulle for a presidential pardon for the only attacker who had been arrested and sentenced to death.

Soustelle disagreed with De Gaulle's sudden turn for Algerian independence.

He analyzed this turnaround in his book L'Espérance trahie (Broken Hope).

1960

Soustelle was dismissed from the cabinet and the Gaullist party Union pour la nouvelle République (UNR) in 1960 and joined the terrorist Organisation armée secrète (OAS) in the fight against the independence of Algeria.

When the OAS was replaced by the Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR), he joined this new organization with Georges Bidault, former President of the World War II National Council of the Resistance.

His activities led his being sued for attempting to undermine the authority of the French state.

1961

As Governor-General of Algeria, he helped the rise of Charles de Gaulle to the presidency of the Fifth Republic, but broke with De Gaulle over Algerian independence, joined the OAS in their efforts to overthrow De Gaulle and lived in exile between 1961 and 1968.

He lived in exile between 1961 and his 1968 amnesty.

1974

In 1974, he supported the bill legalizing abortion presented by Simone Veil.

He died, aged 78, in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

1983

On returning to France he resumed political and academic activity and was elected to the Académie française in 1983.

Jacques Soustelle was born in Montpellier, into a Protestant working-class family.

A brilliant high school student, he was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm.

At the age of 20, he was admitted at the first place at the competitive exam of agrégation de philosophie (high-level grade for teaching).