Jules-Louis Breton
Deceased Person
1872 – 1940
Who was Jules-Louis Breton?
Jules-Louis Breton was a chemist-inventor and a French politician. He was a representative of the French Assembly, and the proponent of the Breton-Pretot machine, a wire-cutting armoured vehicle developed in France from November 1914. The vehicle was developed with M. Pretot, engineer.
Breton was born in Courrières, Pas-de-Calais. He was a Socialist with Anarchist tendencies, and as a Natalist, endeavoured to giving more freedom to women.
During World War I he was France's Undersecretary of State for Inventions. and later founded and directed the National Research and Invention Ministry.
He was also Minister of Hygiene under President Millerand in 1920.
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