| Jacques Piou | |
| Birth Name: | Jacques Gustave Piou |
| Birth Date: | 6 August 1838 |
| Birth Place: | Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Party: | Popular Liberal Action |
| Spouse: | Julie Gentien |
| Parents: | Constance Piou Thérèse Angèle Palmyre Ledall de Kéréon |
| Children: | Léonie Thérèse Piou |
Jacques Piou (1838-1932) was a French lawyer and politician.
Jacques Piou was born on 6 August 1838 in Angers, France.[1] [2] His father, Constance Piou, was a politician.[3] His mother, Thérèse Angèle Palmyre Ledall de Kéréon, was an aristocrat.[3]
He studied the Law.[1]
Piou started his career as a lawyer in Toulouse.[1] 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.[4]
He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Haute-Garonne from 1885 to 1893, and from 1898 to 1902.[1] 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.[1]
He authored a biography of Count Albert de Mun that was published in 1925.[2]
He married Julie Gentien.[3] They had a daughter, Léonie Thérèse Piou.[3]
He died on 12 May 1932 in Paris.[1] [2]