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Louis Loucheur
Louis Loucheur (12 August 1872 in Roubaix, Nord – 22 November 1931 in Paris) was a French politician in the Third Republic, at first a member of the conservative Republican Federation, then of the Democratic Republican Alliance and of the Independent Radicals.
Life.
Coming from a background in the arms industry, Loucheur became Minister of Armaments in September of 1917. 
He was administrator of Tréfileries et Laminoirs du Havre (TLH) when he was appointed Minister of Armaments.
He replaced Albert Thomas
Third Republic.” “[Carls] offers a highly original and important contribution to the study of modernization in twentieth-century France.” In this book called Louis Loucheur and the Shaping of Modern France, 1916-1931, Carls proposes that Loucheur, a World War I weapons manufacturer who turned to politics, was a first-generation technocrat and a major player in France’s postwar industrialization and modernization. An expanded version of the book was published in France under the title Louis Loucheur: Ingénieur, homme d’état, modernisateur