Jules Auguste Lemire

Jules Auguste Lemire (April 23, 1853 – March 7, 1928), French priest and social reformer, was born at Vieux-Berquin (Nord).

He was educated at the college of St Francis of Assisi, Hazebrouck, where he subsequently taught philosophy and rhetoric.

[1] He organized a society called La Ligue française du coin de terre et du foyer, the object of which was to secure, at the expense of the state, a piece of land for every French family desirous of possessing one.

The abbé Lemire sat in the chamber of deputies as a conservative republican and Christian Socialist.

[1] He protested in 1893 against the action of the Dupuy cabinet in closing the Bourses du Travail, characterizing it as the expression of a policy of disdain of the workers.