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Jacques Piou
Jacques Piou (1838-1932) was a French lawyer and politician.
Early life.
Jacques Piou was born on August 6, 1838 in Angers, France. His father, Constance Piou, was a politician. 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.
He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Haute-Garonne from 1885 to 1893,
along with the liberal ARD and the radical PRRRS. Jacques Piou, member of the Rallies, supported the idea of a Tory party in France, born by the fusion of conservative republicans and the Rallies.
Journalist Ernest Daudet also supported this idea and in 1902 many progressives joined the new Liberal Action of Piou. In 1903, the Liberal Republican Union merged with the National Republican Association to form the liberal-conservative Republican Federation led by Auguste Isaac. With the creation of the National Bloc in 1919, Liberal Action merged into