Jacques Soustelle

Jacques Soustelle (3 February 1912, Montpellier – 6 August 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces and an anthropologist specializing in pre-Columbian civilizations. He became vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1938. He was elected to the Académie française in 1983.

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