Jules Godin  Jules Godin (March 14, 1844 – December 21, 1925) was a French lawyer and politician of the French Third Republic. He was Deputy of French India from 1876 to 1881 and Senator of French India from 1891 to 1909. He was briefly Minister of Public Works in 1898. Jules Godin was born on 14 March 1844 in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise. He studied law at the Faculty of Paris, and received a doctorate in 1868. He purchased a position as lawyer at the Council of State and at the Court of Cassation. In this capacity he supported the city of Pondicherry. Godin was elected Deputy of French India on 16 April 1876 by 18,614 out of 18,691 votes, without having formally entered the race or submitted a profession of faith. He was a moderate Republican, and sat with the center left. He was one of the 363(). After the chamber was dissolved, Godin ran for reelection on 11 November 1877 against the official government candidate, Benoist d'Azy. He was reelected by 15,314 votes against 8,040 for his opponent. In the chamber he sat with the Opportunist Republicans majority. He supported the ministry of Jules Armand Dufaure, voted for article 7 of the law on higher education, for invalidation of the election of Louis Auguste Blanqui and against the plenary amnesty. He held office until 14 October 1881. Godin ran for reelection on 25 September 1881 but received only 463 votes against 30,500 for Louis Pierre-Alype(), who was elected. He became a counselor at the Lyon Court of Appeal, then in 1883 at the Paris Court of Appeal. He was again defeated by Pierre-Alype in the 1889 legislative elections. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour on 28 December 1889. Godin ran for election to the senate for the French Indies on 11 January 1891 and was elected by 46 votes against 44 for the incumbent Jacques Hébrard. He spoke in the Senate on legal costs, appropriations needed due to the events in Dahomey in early 1892, and reparations for miscarriage of justice. He was Secretary of the Senate from 1894 to 1896. On 17 September 1898 when the cabinet of Henri Brisson was formed he was appointed Minister of Public Works in place of Louis Tillaye, who had resigned. On 27 October 1898 the Brisson cabinet resigned after losing a vote of confidence in the Chamber after various arrests related to the Dreyfus affair.