Jules-Louis Breton

Deceased Person

1872 – 1940

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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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Born
1872
France
Died
1940

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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