Article: Jacques Soustelle, RIP. (obituary)

JACQUES SOUSTELLE was one of those fascinating French intellectuals whose lives were turned upside down by experience. Soustelle was an academic, a brilliant anthropologist who specialized in the study of pre-Columbian civilizations in Peru and Mexico. By inclination he was a leftist, and accordingly the most convinced leftist in postwar France sent him off to serve as governor general of Algeria. That was in 1955, and Pierre MendisFrance could hardly have predicted what happened to Soustelle, any more than Soustelle could have predicted what later happened to Charles de Gaulle, Soustelle's intimate in the war against the Nazis.

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