Jules Méline

See also: Méline

Felix Jules Méline , born the May 20th 1838 with Remiremont (the Vosges), dead the December 21st 1925 with Paris, was a Politician French of the moderate camp (right-hand side).

Lawyer in Paris under the Second Empire. Assistant of the mayor of Ier district in Paris after the September 4th 1870, it is elected member of the commune the March 26th 1871.

He exerted the functions of President of the Council of the ministers:

of the April 28th 1896 with the July 15th 1898: to see Government Jules Méline
succédant with Middle-class Leon (Middle-class government), and being in its turn replaced by Henri Brisson (2nd government).

He was candidate with the presidential election of 1899.

For Méline, the French economy can be comparable with a tree in which industry represents the branches and the sheets, and where agriculture represents the trunk and the roots. Mélinisme thus emphasizes fully agriculture, and is opposed in this direction to the Saint-Simonism which can be summarized in the formula: “all by industry, very for industry. ”

Jules Méline is in particular known to have given his name to the " Méline" tariffs; of 1892, protectionist law aiming at protecting French agriculture from international competition, and marking the end of the free-trade policy started under the Second Empire. it created in particular the agricultural Mérite. It is at the origin of the law of November 5th, 1894 creating the local companies of Agricultural credit. This law authorizes the constitution, between the members of the agricultural trade unions, of local cases having the aim of facilitating the granting of credit necessary to the financing of the agricultural production.

Electoral mandates

1872 - 1903: deputy of the Vosges (labelled “opportunist”, according to a famous encyclopedic dictionary)
1903 - 1925: senator of the Vosges (Left democratic)

of the April 4th 1888 with the November 11th 1889: president of the House of Commons

Ministerial functions

under-secretary of State to the Justice and the Worships from December 21st, 1876 to May 17th, 1877 in the Government Jules Simon
Minister for the Agriculture from February 21st, 1883 to April 6th, 1885 in the Government Jules Ferry (2)
President of the Council and Minister for the Agriculture from April 29th, 1896 to June 28th, 1898 in the Government Jules Méline
Minister for the Agriculture from October 29th, 1915 to December 12th, 1916 in the Government Aristide Briand (5)

Works

1905 : the Return to the ground…
1919 : Safety by the ground

Quotations

"There is no Dreyfus" business;

Note: The completion dates of government indicated on anglophone Wikipedia can be false (on certain pages). They correspond each time to the Passation of the capacities between the former president of the Council, resigner but dispatching the go concern, and the new president of the Council have just been nommé. -----

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