Jules Philippe Louis Albert Grévy (23 August 1823 – 10 July 1899) was a French lawyer and politician.

[1] His paternal grandfather, Nicolas Grévy (1736–1812), was the son of farmers in Aumont, moved to Mont-sous-Vaudrey during the French Revolution and bought the property of la Grangerie.

[4] His other brother was Paul Louis Jules Grevy(fr) (1820–1914), who became General of Division and was elected to the Senate in 1880 to represent Jura.

As leader of the democratic opposition to the government of the Second French Empire he openly fought the plebiscite of 8 May 1870 in a series of meetings at the Grand-Théâtre in Besançon.

Due to his moderate Republican views on 6 October 1870 the Government of National Defense appointed him Commissioner General in the departments of Doubs, Jura and Haute-Saône, but he soon left this position.

He opposed the government of 24 May 1873, and spoke against the septennat, state of siege, law on mayors and the ministry of Albert de Broglie.

[6] By decree of 15 March 1879, renewed on 15 September 1879, Grévy was temporarily assigned the position of Governor-General of Algeria.

Grévy encountered difficulties that included the need to suppress a revolt of the Kabyle people in Batna in May 1879.

[8] Grévy was a conscientious and hard-working administrator, but his obsession with detail led to delays when action was needed.

[9] In March 1881 he responded as government commissioner to the interpellation by the deputy Gaston Thomson on the arbitrary imprisonment of Arabs in Constantine Province.

[10] The "decrees of attachment" of 6 September 1881 markedly diminished Grévy's powers by giving control of many services to the relevant ministries.

[6] Grévy was implicated in the Panama scandals, and on 20 December 1892 the government asked parliament to authorise his prosecution.

[8] The cases against Deputy Maurice Rouvier and Senators Grévy, Paul Devès and Léon Renault(fr) were dismissed based on lack of evidence.