Jacques Soustelle Quotes

1912–1990

Jacques Soustelle (3 February 1912 – 6 August 1990) was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939. Soustelle and his followers opposed any compromise with anticolonial activists in Algeria in the Algerian War.

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The Spaniards couldn’t have acted otherwise. And we mustn’t forget the efforts some Spaniards made to record and defend; or that they made possible the society in which Indian life was to reawaken.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jacques Soustelle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.