Biography
Jacques Soustelle was born in Montpellier in a Protestant working-class family. A very brilliant high school student, he was admitted at the first place at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm, which is still the ultimate college within the French educational system (many Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists are among its alumni). At the age of 20, he was admitted at the first place at the competitive exam of agrégation de philosophie (high-level grade for teaching). An anti-fascist, he was general-secretary in 1935 of the French Union of Intellectuals against Fascism.
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