Jacques Piou (1838-1932) was a French lawyer and politician.
Early life Jacques Piou was born on 6 August 1838 in Angers, France.National Assembly: Jacques PiouJacques Piou, Bibliothèque nationale de France His father, Constance Piou, was a politician.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.
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.
References
Further reading Martin, Benjamin F. "The Creation of the Action Libérale Populaire: an Example of Party Formation in Third Republic France." French Historical Studies 9.4 (1976): 660-689. online