Charles Sulpice Jules Chanoine (December 18 1835 – January 9 1915) was a French military officer.

Earlier in his career, he served as chief of the French troops in China during the Second Opium War. Later he was posted to Japan as part of two groups of officers sent to that country by Napoleon III at the request of the last shogun Iemochi Tokugawa. Among the officers under his command in Japan was Jules Brunet.

As Henri Brisson's third Minister of War in 1898, Chanoine, like his predecessors, Generals Cavaignac and Zurlinden, attempted to prevent a review of the Dreyfus case, against the wishes of the cabinet, which had already decided to support review. The indecision within the government caused by Chanoine's actions, as well as the chaos on the streets caused by the anti-Dreyfusards, led to the fall of the government.

See also

• List of War Ministers of France

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