Jacques-Louis Dumesnil (; 15 March 1882, in

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– 15 June 1956, in Paris) was a French politician. He served as Minister of Air from 1931 to 1932.

Life

From an old

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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."M. J.-L. Dumesnil, sous-secrétaire d'État de l'Aéronautique", in ''

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'', no. 207, 3 October 1918, page 3 He was re-elected in 1914 and remained in post until 1935. He was mobilised for the

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as a sous-lieutenant. During the course of the conflict he rose to lieutenant then captain, was wounded at the

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and won the

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and the

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