Jules Méline

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Jules Méline
Méline, Jules, 1915, agence Meurisse, BNF Gallica.jpg
Prime Minister of France
In office
29 April 1896 – 28 June 1898
President Félix Faure
Preceded by Léon Bourgeois
Succeeded by Henri Brisson
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
4 April 1888 – 11 Novembre 1889
Preceded by Charles Floquet
Succeeded by Charles Floquet
Personal details
Born 20 May 1838
Remiremont
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Paris
Political party Progressive Republican
(1870–1903)
Republican Federation
(1903-1910s)

Félix Jules Méline (French pronunciation: ​[ʒyl melin]; 20 May 1838 – 21 December 1925) was a French statesman, Prime Minister of France from 1896 to 1898.

Biography

Méline was born at Remiremont. Having taken up law as his profession, he was chosen a deputy in 1872, and in 1879 he was for a short time Under-Secretary to the Minister of the Interior. In 1880 he came to the front as the leading spokesman of the party which favoured the protection of French industries, and he had a considerable share in fashioning the protectionist legislation of the years 1890–1902. From 1883 to 1885 Méline was Minister for Agriculture, and in 1888–1889 he was President of the Chamber of Deputies. In 1896 he became Premier (Président du Conseil) and Minister for Agriculture, offices which he vacated in 1898.[1]

At one time he edited La République francaise, and after his retirement from public life he wrote Le Retour de la terre et Ia surproduction industrielle, tout en faveur de l'agriculture (1905).[1]

The introduction of French protectionist measure of 1892 is named after him, the Méline tariff.[2]

Méline's Ministry

Méline's Ministry, 29 April 1896 – 28 June 1898:[citation needed]

Changes

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Chisholm 1911, p. 94.
  2. Michael S. Smith, "The Méline Tariff as Social Protection: Rhetoric or Reality?" International Review of Social History (1992) 37 : pp 230-243

References

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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Agriculture
1883–1885
Succeeded by
Hervé Mangon
Preceded by President of the Chamber of Deputies
1888–1889
Succeeded by
Charles Floquet
Preceded by Prime Minister of France
1896–1898
Succeeded by
Henri Brisson
Preceded by Minister of Agriculture
1896–1898
Succeeded by
Albert Viger