René Bérenger

René Bérenger, born in Bourg-lès-Valence (Drôme) on 22 April 1830 and died Alincourt (Ardennes) on 29 August 1915, was a French lawyer, judge, and politician.

At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he was Avocat général of Lyon but resigned to enlist as a volunteer.

[2] Returned to the National Assembly by the département of Drôme as a member of the Centre gauche parliamentary group, he was for a few days in 1873 minister of public works under Jules Armand Dufaure.

[1] In 1871 he founded a society for the reclamation of discharged prisoners, and presided over various bodies formed to secure improvement of the public morals.

He succeeded Charles Lucas in 1890 at the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.