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.
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.
The Dragonnades was a policy implemented by Louis XIV in 1681 to force French Protestants known as Huguenots to convert to Catholicism. It involved the billeting of dragoons of the French Royal Army in Huguenot households, with the soldiers being given implied permission to mistreat the inhabitants and damage or steal their possessions. Soldiers employed as part of this policy were derisively referred to as "missionary dragoons".
Athanase Josué Coquerel was a French Protestant theologian.
Patrick Cabanel is a French historian, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études and holder of the chair in Histoire et sociologie des protestantismes. He mainly writes on the history of religious minorities, the construction of a secularised French Republic and French resistance to the Shoah.
The War of the Camisards or the Cévennes War was an uprising of Protestant peasants known as Camisards in the Cévennes and Languedoc during the reign of Louis XIV. The uprising was a response to the Edict of Fountainebleu in 1685.
Auguste Carrière was a linguist, grammarian and French historian, specializing in comparative grammar and Armenian culture. He was a professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in Paris, and was an advocate of Armenian language studies, establishing an Armenian Chair at the school.
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Jacques Bompaire was a 20th-century French Hellenist and scholar of ancient Greek and Greek literature of the Roman and Byzantine period.
Jacques Martin (1906–2001) was a French pacifist, one of the first conscientious objectors in France, and a Protestant pastor. His commitment to French Resistance and to the protection of persecuted Jews earned him the recognition of Yad Vashem as a "Righteous Among the Nations." He died in Die on 23 July 2001.
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Joseph Martin commonly known as Joseph Martin-Paschoud, was a French liberal Protestant pastor. He served as a pastor in Luneray and Lyon, before serving as a pastor in Paris from 1837 until his death.
Jean Goguel was a French geologist and geophysicist. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Societies of America, of London, and of Belgium. He played an important leadership role in the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and he was made chairman of the European Association of Exploration Geophysicists in 1952
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Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard is a French historian of modern Protestantism and honorary docent at the Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris. She is vice-president of the Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français and a member of the Comité consultatif national d'éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé (2013–2017).
Alfred Frédéric Kuen was a French evangelical theologian, Biblical translator, writer and teacher.
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Simone Iff, née Simone Balfet, was a French activist noted for her advocacy for women's rights and reproductive health. She is noted for her 30 years of activism for the legalization of contraception and abortion in France. Further, Iff was a founding member of the French Family Planning Movement and served as its president from 1969 to 1973.
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