Jules Roche (22 May 1841,

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regi ...

- 8 April 1923) was a French politician. He was a member of the

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from 1881 to 1919. He was Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1890 to 1892. Originally a member of the Republican Union, later on he joined the

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. On 3 July 1905 he voted against the Law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.

Principal positions

* Mayor of Serrières * Député du Var, 1881 – 1885 * Député de la Savoie, 1885 – 1898 * Député de l'Ardèche, 1898 – 1919 * Minister of Commerce, de l’Industrie et des Colonies, 17 March 1890 – 8 March 1892 * Minister of Commerce et de l’Industrie, 8 March 1892 – 6 December 1892

Publications

* ''Le Budget des Cultes'' (1883) * ''L’Allemagne et la France'' (1898) * ''La politique économique de la France'' (1898) * ''Finances et politique'' (1899) * ''Budgets du XIXe siècle'' et ''Questions diverses'' (1901) * ''L’Impôt sur le Revenu'', ''Discours Parlementaires'', ''Quand serons-nous en République ?'' (1918) * ''L’Alsace-Lorraine, terre française.'' (1918)

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