Jacques Piou

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| birth_name = Jacques Gustave Piou

| birth_date = 6 August 1838

| birth_place = Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France

| death_date = {{d-da|12 May 1932|6 August 1838}}

| death_place = Paris, France

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| nationality = French

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| party = Popular Liberal Action

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| spouse = Julie Gentien

| parents = Constance Piou
Thérèse Angèle Palmyre Ledall de Kéréon

| children = Léonie Thérèse Piou

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Jacques Piou (1838-1932) was a French lawyer and politician.

Early life

Jacques Piou was born on 6 August 1838 in Angers, France.[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=5956 National Assembly: Jacques Piou][http://data.bnf.fr/12460083/jacques_piou/ Jacques Piou], Bibliothèque nationale de France His father, Constance Piou, was a politician.[http://gw.geneanet.org/bourelly?lang=fr;p=jacques+gustave;n=piou Jacques Piou], GeneaNet His mother, Thérèse Angèle Palmyre Ledall de Kéréon, was an aristocrat.

He studied the Law.

Career

Piou started his career as a lawyer in Toulouse. Politically Piou initially supported Royalism and later General Georges Ernest Boulanger, before supporting the Third Republic following Pope Leo XIII's policy of ralliement following his encyclical Au milieu des sollicitudes.{{cite journal| last=Martin jr | first=Benjamin F. |date= Autumn 1979 |title=The Creation of the Action Libérale Populaire: An Example of Party Formation in Third Republic France|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/286210 |journal= French Historical Studies|volume=9 |issue=4 |page=661-662}}

He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Haute-Garonne from 1885 to 1893, and from 1898 to 1902. He co-founded Popular Liberal Action, a conservative political party, with Count Albert de Mun in 1901. He then served for Lozère from 1906 to 1919.

He authored a biography of Count Albert de Mun that was published in 1925.

Personal life

He married Julie Gentien. They had a daughter, Léonie Thérèse Piou.

Death

He died on 12 May 1932 in Paris.

Jacques Piou

Early life

Career

Personal life

Death

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