Jules-Louis Breton
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For the French Realist painter, see Jules Breton.
Jules-Louis Breton (1872, Courrières, Pas-de-Calais – 1940) 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.[1]
During World War I he was France's Undersecretary of State for Inventions.[2] and later founded and directed the National Research and Invention Ministry.[3]
He was also Minister of Hygiene under President Millerand in 1920.[4]
He was a Socialist with Anarchist tendencies, and as a Natalist, endeavoured to giving more freedom to women.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Gougaud, p.104
- ^ Irresistible empire by Victoria De Grazia p.426
- ^ a b Irresistible empire by Victoria De Grazia p.426
- ^ Maternity and gender policies by Gisela Bock p.153
[edit] References
- Alain Gougaud L'Aube de la Gloire, Les Autos-Mitrailleuses et les Chars Français pendant la Grande Guerre, 1987, Musée des Blindés, ISBN 2904255028
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