Jacques Soustelle was born in Montpellier, France on 3 February 1912 and died 6 August 1990. A trained anthropologist specializing in Latin American civilizations, he became vice-director of the Musée de l'homme in Paris in 1938. Location within France Montpellier (Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

An anti-fascist, he joined the French resistance and De Gaulle in London, coming to head the information and intelligence services. In 1945, he served first as Minister of Information, then of the Colonies. From 1947 to 1951, he served as Secretary General of the Gaullist party Rally of the French People (RPF). Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... The French Resistance is the name used for resistance movements that fought military occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the Vichy France undemocratic regime during World War II after the government and the high command of France surrendered in 1940. ... Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (  listen?) (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

He became Governor General of Algeria in 1955-56, favouring the integration of the Muslim community in the French Departments along the Mediterranean coast. Soustelle supported De Gaulle's return to power, becoming Information Minister in 1958. In 1959, he was appointed Minister of State in charge of Overseas Departments. Because he disagreed with De Gaulle's policy favouring Algerian independence (see the Algerian war of independence), Soustelle was dismissed from the Cabinet and the Gaullist UNR Party in 1960. His support for an Algeria that would remain a part of the French Republic led to his being wanted for attempting to undermine the authority of the French state. He lived in exile between 1961 and his 1968 pardon. Ummah (أمة) is an Arabic word that means community or nation. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (  listen?) (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. ... The Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) was a period of guerrilla strikes, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians on both sides, and riots between the French army and colonists, or the colons as they were called, in Algeria and the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) and other pro-independence...

Soustelle served in France's Assemble Nationale (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 Réformateur party. Mayenne is a département in northwest France named after the Mayenne River. ... Rhône can refer to: Rhône River Rhône (département) in France Rhône (Wine Region) in France This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Soustelle wrote Envers et contre tout, Aimée et souffrante Algérie, L'Espérance trahie, l'Art du Mexique, Mexique et les Quatre Soleils. He was elected to the Académie française in 1983. The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ...