3-028-378 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

M. Schneider, President of the French Corps Legislatif, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by M. Franck. 'M. Eugène Schneider is the proprietor and manager of the very extensive iron and steel foundries and machine factories at Creuzot, in Burgundy, which form one of the greatest establishments in Europe of that kind...The Messrs. Schneider were rewarded with gold medals at the exhibitions of 1839, 1844, and 1849...On the death of his brother, caused by an accident, in 1845, M. Eugene Schneider succeeded him both in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Conseil General for the Department of the Saône-et-Loire. He was reelected in 1846, and became one of the Ministerial majority. On Jan. 20, 1851, he was appointed by the President of the Republic Minister of Agriculture; but resigned in April, when his services were acknowledged with the title of Commander of the Legion of Honour. After the coup-d'etat, in December, 1851, he formed part of the "Commission Consultative," to assist Louis Napoleon in drawing up a scheme for a government of the Empire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.