Jacques Soustelle

thumb| 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. Quotes 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. Reported in V. S. Naipaul, "Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West", The Daily Telegraph Magazine (26 January 1968); reprinted in The Overcrowded Barracoon, and Other Articles (Penguin, 1976) pp. 212-13. See: Spanish colonization of the Americas External links