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Jules Méline

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Jules Méline
Méline in 1915
Prime Minister of France
In office
29 April 1896 – 28 June 1898
PresidentFélix Faure
Preceded byLéon Bourgeois
Succeeded byHenri Brisson
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
4 April 1888 – 11 November 1889
Preceded byCharles Floquet
Succeeded byCharles Floquet
Personal details
Born20 May 1838
Remiremont, Kingdom of France
Died21 December 1925(1925-12-21) (aged 87)
Paris, France
PartyProgressive Republican (1870–1903)
Republican Federation (1903–1910s)

Félix Jules Méline (French: [ʒyl melin]; 20 May 1838 – 21 December 1925) was a French statesman, Prime Minister of France from 1896 to 1898.

Biography

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Méline was born at Remiremont. Having taken up law as his profession, he was chosen a deputy in 1872, and in 1879 he was for a short time Under-Secretary to the Minister of the Interior. In 1880 he came to the fore as the leading spokesman of the party which favoured the protection of French industries, and he had a considerable share in fashioning the protectionist legislation of the years 1890–1902. From 1883 to 1885, Méline was Minister for Agriculture, and in 1888–1889 he was President of the Chamber of Deputies. In 1896 he became Premier (Président du Conseil) and Minister for Agriculture.[1] His tenure in these roles ended in 1898, after losing the confidence of the Chamber of Deputies following the 1898 French legislative election, being succeeded as Premier by Henri Brisson.[2][3]

At one time he edited La République francaise, and after his retirement from public life he wrote Le Retour de la terre et Ia surproduction industrielle, tout en faveur de l'agriculture (1905).[1]

The French protectionist measure of 1892, the Méline tariff, is named after him.[4]

In social policy, Méline's premiership is notable for the introduction in April 1898 of a workmen’s compensation law.[5] Also during his premiership, in 1897 the privilege of the Bank of France was renewed with the stipulation (as noted by one study) “that it provides farmers with forty million francs (plus an additional two million each year) in the form of low-interest loans.”[6] A law of July the 17th 1897 authorized an existing insurance fund (as noted by one study) “to make the sum payable in the event of death divisible among several beneficiaries (literally to make mixed insurances in the event of death).”[7] In addition, a law was passed on April the 19th of 1898 for (As noted by one study) “the repression of disorder, acts of violence, acts of cruelty, and assaults on children,”[8] and an Act of April the 21st 1898 set up an accident fund for seamen.[9] In addition, a law of April the 1st 1898 released mutual aid societies (as noted by one study) “from close administrative control and extended their field of activities.”[10] These reforms reflected Méline's views, who back in 1891 had declared that ‘the best form of socialism…would be that of producing work for our workers, of improving their conditions and…of raising their wages and improving their welfare.’[11]

Méline's Ministry

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Méline's Ministry, 29 April 1896 – 28 June 1898:[citation needed]

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Notes

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  1. 1 2 Chisholm 1911, p. 94.
  2. ↑ Passmore, Kevin (November 2012). "4 The Ralliement (1890–1898)". The Right in France from the Third Republic to Vichy (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford Academic. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658206.003.0004. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  3. ↑ Gildea, Robert. Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799–1914. London: Penguin UK. p. 275.
  4. ↑ Michael S. Smith, "The Méline Tariff as Social Protection: Rhetoric or Reality?" International Review of Social History (1992) 37 : pp 230-243
  5. ↑ A Social Laboratory for Modern France The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State By Janet R. Horne, 2002, P.205
  6. ↑ Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France Global Economic Crisis and the Racialization of French Citizenship, 1870-1910 By Elizabeth Heath, 2014, P.165
  7. ↑ Bulletin of the Department of Labor Issues 50-55 1904, Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, P.1055
  8. ↑ Bulletin of the Department of Labor Issues 50-55 1904, Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, P.1055
  9. ↑ Workmen's Insurance and Compensation Systems in Europe In Two Volumes, Volume 2By United States Bureau of Labor, Charles Patrick Neill, 1911, P.727
  10. ↑ Fraternity Among the French Peasantry Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914 By Alan R. H. Baker, 2004, P.148
  11. ↑ The Crisis of Conservatism The Politics, Economics and Ideology of the Conservative Party, 1880-1914 By E.H.H. Green, 2005, P.299

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