Justin Théophile Athanase Massicault (September 14, 1838 – November 5, 1892) was a French journalist and government official. Born in Ourouer-les-Bourdelins (

Cher Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Often referred to by the media as the "Goddess of Pop", she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industr ...

), Massicault was the child of two teachers and was at first a teacher himself, but then became a journalist at the daily Le Progrès in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of ...

. In 1862 he joined the staff of ''La Gironde'', a

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture ...

daily, where he eventually became editor. Appointed

prefect Prefect (from the Latin ''praefectus'', substantive adjectival form of ''praeficere'': "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area. A prefect's ...

of the

Haute-Vienne Haute-Vienne (; oc, Nauta Vinhana, ; English: Upper Vienne) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve departments that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquita ...

on October 25 of 1870, he resigned on February 6, 1871. He later founded several newspapers successively: ''L'Indépendance'' in

, ''La Charente'' in Angouleme, and ''La Vienne'' in

Poitiers Poitiers (, , , ; Poitevin: ''Poetàe'') is a city on the River Clain in west-central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical centre of Poitou. In 2017 it had a population of 88,291. Its agglome ...

.''Loges et francs-maçons de la Haute-Vienne : de l'Ancien Régime à la Cinquième République'', par Francis Masgnaud, chez L. Souny, 2000 He was appointed Prefect of the Rhône in 1882, and as resident-general in Tunisia on November 22 of 1886 till his death at

Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 ...

on November 5 of 1892. Justin_Massicault

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Massicault, Justin 1838 births 1892 deaths Prefects of France French residents-general in Tunisia 19th-century French journalists French male journalists People from Cher (department) 19th-century French male writers