Jules-Louis Breton

Jules-Louis Breton (1 April 1872 – 2 August 1940) was an inventor and a French politician.

[1] He was a representative of the French Assembly, and the proponent of the Breton-Prétot machine, a device developed in France from November 1914, intended to cut a way through barbed wire on the battlefield.

He was a Socialist with Anarchist tendencies, and as a Natalist, endeavoured to giving more freedom to women.

[3] During World War I he was France's Undersecretary of State for Inventions for National Defense.

[5] Breton was the founder and first director of the National Board of Scientific and Industrial Research and Inventions (ORNI: Office national des recherches scientifiques et industrielles et des Inventions), created on 29 December 1922 and dissolved on 24 May 1938, predecessor of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).