Léon Talabot
| Joseph Léon Talabot | |
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Léon Talabot
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| Deputy for Haute-Vienne | |
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In office 1836–1848 |
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| Born |
5 February 1796 Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France |
| Died | 23 September 1863 (aged 67) Soisy-sous-Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Iron master, politician |
Joseph Léon Talabot (5 February 1796 – 23 September 1863) was a French engineer, iron master and politician. He advocated protectionist policies to maintain the prices of iron and steel. He was the founder of the Denain-Anzin steelworks.
Joseph Léon Talabot was born on 5 February 1796 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne. His father, Francois Talabot (1764–1839), was a lawyer, and his mother was Marie Agathe Martin-Lagrave. He had seven siblings, including the railway and canal engineer Paulin Talabot (1799–1885). He received formal training as an engineer. Talabot operated the joint-stock Saut-du-Tarn steel making company near Albi, Tarn, which had been founded in the 1920s by capitalists from Toulouse. In 1836 Talabot's Forges et Laminoirs d'Anzin was founded to make rails for use by the proposed Northern Railroad. Talabot was the engineer in chief of the Paris-Dijon railway.
Talabot was elected deputy for Limoges, Haute-Vienne, on 23 January 1836, replacing Pierre-Alpinien Bourdeau, who had resigned. He was reelected on 4 November 1837, 2 March 1839, 9 July 1842 and 1 August 1846. He sat in the center left, among the supports of Adolphe Thiers. In 1842, during the debates over the railway laws, he organized a lobby of deputies from the Center and the Midi. In 1846 the Association pour la défense du Travail national was formed to promote protectionist policies. The council included Antoine Odier (President), Auguste Mimerel (Vice-President), Joseph Périer (Treasurer) and Louis-Martin Lebeuf (Secretary). Members included Henri Barbet, Léon Talabot, Eugène Schneider and Jules Hochet. The Association, and Talabot personally, was opposed to the reform of the customs system advocated by Laurent Cunin-Gridaine. Talabot's political career ended with the French Revolution of 1848.
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