Jacques Poujol

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Jacques Poujol (12 February 1922 - 18 February 2012 [1] ) was a French essayist and historian of Protestantism. He also fought in the French Resistance during the Second World War.

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He was born in Toulon to Pierre Poujol, a classics teacher in several lycées in the French provinces and Paris as well as one of the leaders of the Christian social movement and author of publications on the Protestant Cévennes. [2] Jacques' mother Marie Teissier de Caladon was descended from a Vebronnaise family. [3] His three younger siblings were the prefect and historian Robert Poujol, [4] sociologist Geneviève Poujol and Denise Poujol. He was also brother-in-law to Michel Rocard.

Jacques Poujol studied at the lycée Henri-IV in 1934-1942 and graduated in classics from the La Sorbonne in 1943, but then refused to do national service and instead in June 1943 joined the maquis in La Soureilhade (which on 12 July 1944 became the maquis Aigoual-Cévennes). [3] He remained with them until September 1944 and from January to August 1945 served in the 1e RMSM of the 2nd Armored Division under general Leclerc. In 1948 he began teaching French literature at the University of California in Los Angeles and in 1955 at the faculté des lettres de Paris he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the evolution and influence of absolutism in France between 1498 and 1559.

He then became a cultural advisor in New York from 1961 to 1966 then counsellor to France's Office national des universités et écoles françaises back in Paris until 1978. He then pursued a professorial career at the Centre international d'études pédagogiques in Sèvres until 1983, the same year as he was made secretary general of the Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, a role he held for five years. [5] He died in 2012 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. .

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