Background
Jules Auguste Lemire was born on the 23rd of April in Vieux-Berquin, Nord, France.
politician member of parliament in France
Jules Auguste Lemire was born on the 23rd of April in Vieux-Berquin, Nord, France.
Jules Auguste Lemire was educated at the college of St Francis of Assisi, Hazebrouck, where he subsequently taught philosophy and rhetoric.
In 1897 Jules Auguste Lemire was elected deputy for Hazebrouck and was returned unopposed at the elections of 1898, 1902 and 1906. 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. 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.
In December 1893 Jules Auguste Lemire was seriously injured by the bomb thrown by the anarchist Vaillant from the gallery of the chamber.
The abbé Lemire sat in the chamber of deputies as a conservative republican and Christian Socialist.