{{Short description|French politician}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacques Piou | image = Jacques Piou (Agence Meurisse, 1913) (cropped and adjusted).jpg | image_size = | caption = Jacques Piou in 1913 | birth_name = Jacques Gustave Piou | birth_date = 6 August 1838 | birth_place = Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France | death_date = {{death date and age|12 May 1932|6 August 1838}} | death_place = Paris, France | death_cause = | resting_place = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | title = | political_party = Popular Liberal Action | networth = | spouse = Julie Gentien | parents = Constance Piou<br/>Thérèse Angèle Palmyre Ledall de Kéréon | children = Léonie Thérèse Piou | relatives = | website = }} '''Jacques Piou''' (1838-1932) was a French lawyer and politician.
==Early life== Jacques Piou was born on 6 August 1838 in Angers, France.<ref name="nationalassembly">[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=5956 National Assembly: Jacques Piou]</ref><ref name="bnf">[http://data.bnf.fr/12460083/jacques_piou/ Jacques Piou], Bibliothèque nationale de France</ref> His father, Constance Piou, was a politician.<ref name="geneanet">[http://gw.geneanet.org/bourelly?lang=fr;p=jacques+gustave;n=piou Jacques Piou], GeneaNet</ref> His mother, Thérèse Angèle Palmyre Ledall de Kéréon, was an aristocrat.<ref name="geneanet"/>
He studied the Law.<ref name="nationalassembly"/>
==Career== Piou started his career as a lawyer in Toulouse.<ref name="nationalassembly"/> 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''.<ref>{{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 |pages=661–662}}</ref>
He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Haute-Garonne from 1885 to 1893, and from 1898 to 1902.<ref name="nationalassembly"/> 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.<ref name="nationalassembly"/>
He authored a biography of Count Albert de Mun that was published in 1925.<ref name="bnf"/>
==Personal life== He married Julie Gentien.<ref name="geneanet"/> They had a daughter, Léonie Thérèse Piou.<ref name="geneanet"/>
==Death== He died on 12 May 1932 in Paris.<ref name="nationalassembly"/><ref name="bnf"/>
==References== {{Commons category|Jacques Piou}} {{Reflist}}
==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. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/286210 online]
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