Jacques-Louis Dumesnil
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Jacques-Louis Dumesnil (15 March 1882, in Paris – 15 June 1956, in Paris) was a French politician.
Life
From an old Seine-et-Marne family, he initially worked as a journalist and lawyer at the Cour de Paris. He was elected a conseiller général for Seine-et-Marne aged 25 and a radical deputy for Seine-et-Marne aged 28 in 1910.[1] He was re-elected in 1914 and remained in post until 1935.
He was mobilised for the First World War as a sous-lieutenant. During the course of the conflict he rose to lieutenant then captain, was wounded at the First Battle of the Marne and won the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
References
- ^ "M. J.-L. Dumesnil, sous-secrétaire d'État de l'Aéronautique", in Le Pays de France, no. 207, 3 October 1918, page 3
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Categories:
- 1882 births
- 1956 deaths
- Politicians from Paris
- Radical Party (France) politicians
- Independents of the Left politicians
- French Naval Ministers
- Members of the 10th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of the 11th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of the 12th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of the 13th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of the 14th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of the 15th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- French Senators of the Third Republic
- Senators of Seine-et-Marne
- French journalists
- French Army officers
- French military personnel of World War I
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)