List of Famous people with last name Soustelle

Georgette Soustelle

Georgette Fagot

First Name Georgette

Born on May 2, 1909

Died on May 6, 1999 (aged 90)

Born in Tunisia, Tunis Governorate

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Jacques Soustelle

First Name Jacques

Last Name Soustelle

Born on February 3, 1912

Died on August 6, 1990 (aged 78)

Born in France, Occitania

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

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