René Reille

Baron René Charles Reille-Soult-Dalmatie (4 February 1835 – 21 November 1898) was a French soldier, industrialist and politician.

[1] Reille was the direct heir of a family that had profited from political connections since the First French Empire, and was one of the leading capitalists of the Midi.

[6] Under the French Third Republic Reille was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour on 7 February 1871, and was reelected to the Tarn General Council, where he was vice-president.

[6] His election on 14 October 1877 was subject to the thorough and lengthy investigation due to the fact the Reille had been an assistant of Oscar Bardi de Fourtou.

In June 1885 he submitted a counter-proposal to the military law to return to a mixed system of a permanent army with a mobile lagar.

[6] He voted against the Lisbonne law defining freedom of the press, and against the prosecution of General Georges Ernest Boulanger.

[2] His widow, the baronne Reille, became the second president of the Ligue patriotique des Françaises (League of Patriotic French Women).