Jacques Poujol

Jacques Poujol (12 February 1922 - 18 February 2012 ) was a French essayist and historian of Protestantism. He also fought in the French Resistance during the Second World War.

Biography He was born in Toulon to Pierre Poujol, a classics teacher in several lycées in the French provinces and Paris as well as one of the leaders of the Christian social movement and author of publications on the Protestant Cévennes. Jacques' mother Marie Teissier de Caladon was descended from a Vebronnaise family. His three younger siblings were the prefect and historian Robert Poujol, sociologist Geneviève Poujol and Denise Poujol. He was also brother-in-law to Michel Rocard.

Jacques Poujol studied at the lycée Henri-IV in 1934-1942 and graduated in classics from the La Sorbonne in 1943, but then refused to do national service and instead in June 1943 joined the maquis in La Soureilhade (which on 12 July 1944 became the maquis Aigoual-Cévennes. He died in 2012 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

Publications Édition critique de la Monarchie de France par Claude de Seyssel, Librairie de France, 1961. Initiation à la civilisation américaine, (with Michel Oriano), Masson, paris, 1969. Cévennes, Terre de refuge, with Philippe Joutard and Patrick Cabanel, Presses du Languedoc-Club Cévenol, 1987. (éd.) Journal de route en Cévennes par Robert-Louis Stevenson, with Gordon Golding (translator), Philippe Joutard et J. Blondel. Éditions Privat-Club Cévenol, 1991. La France protestante, Histoire et lieux de mémoire, (with H. Dubief, Max Chaleil éditeur, 1992, p. 454 . (dir.) Les Protestants français pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, with André Encrevé), Paris, numéro spécial du Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, 1994. Protestants dans la France en guerre, 1939-1945, dictionnaire thématique et biographique, Éditions de Paris-Max Chaleil, 2000. Itinéraires : Des chrétiens témoignent (2000) with Simone Pacot, Jean Boissonnat et Frédéric de Coninck, éd. Empreinte Temps Présent

Honours and distinctions Vice-president of the Club cévenol Secretary general of the Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français Member of the Académie des Hauts Cantons (seat II)