Jacques Soustelle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacques Soustelle

French mesoamericanist

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1912

Place of Birth: Montpellier, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1990

Profession: politician, minister, university teacher, anthropologist, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jacques Soustelle (3 February 1912 – 6 August 1990) was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939.
Governor General of Algeria, he helped the rise of De Gaulle to the presidency of the Fifth Republic, but broke with De Gaulle over Algerian independence, joined the OAS is their efforts to overthrow De Gaulle and lived in exile between 1961 and 1968.
On returning to France he resumed political and academic activity and was elected to the Académie française in 1983.