Jules Develle

Jules Develle (12 April 1845 – 30 October 1919) was a French politician.

Biography
He was born in Bar-le-Duc to Claude Charles Develle, an insurance agent, and Anne Marguerite Rousselot. He studied law and became a lawyer. He discovered his passion for political activity as a secretary of Jules Grévy. He was then appointed prefect but he was removed later on because of his political thoughts (1877). He held 13 cabinet posts during the Third Republic including Minister of Justice, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1893. increasing the influence of France in Indochina, and also participating in the end of the alliance between France and Russia.

Later, once more a simple deputy, he opposed socialism and income tax. In 1898 he lost an election to the antisemitic nationalist Henry Ferrette, victim of the fallout of the Dreyfus affair, and another in 1899, even more soundly, to another anti-Dreyfus candidate in Louviers.

He died in Paris in 1919.