Jacques Stern (politician)
Jacques Stern was a wealthy French banker, politician and a member of the Stern banking family.
He was Minister of Merchant Marine in 1933 and Minister of the Colonies in 1936.
While in exile in the United States during World War II (1939–45) he wrote a passionate defense of France's colonial mission.
Stern in 1932
Antoine Benoît François Deloncle was a French orientalist, journalist, diplomat and politician who was Deputy for Basses-Alpes from 1889 to 1898, Deputy for Cochinchina from 1902 to 1910, and again Deputy for Basses-Alpes from 1912 to 1914. He was a member of the groupe colonial, in favour of expanding and consolidating the French colonial empire and opposed to the rival British Empire. He portrayed the British as oppressive despots compared to the civilized and tolerant French.
Deloncle, député des Basses-Alpes, from La Chronique universelle artistique, politique, scientifique, littéraire illustrée March 1891
Cartoon of Deloncle and the Great Paris Exhibition Telescope of 1900
Faust at the Theater of the Republic: Choir of chéquards: Reinach, Rouvier, Roche, Deloncle, Grévy and Guyot. La Libre Parole illustrée, 21 September 1895