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DELESSERT, JULES PAUL BENJAMIN (1773–1847)

DELESSERT, JULES See also:
PAUL
PAUL (PAULUS)
PAUL See also:
BENJAMIN
BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)
BENJAMIN (1773–1847) , See also:

French banker, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Lyons on the 14th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1773, the son of See also:

ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

Etienne Delessert (1735–1816), the founder of the first See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire See also:

INSURANCE

insurance See also:

COMPANY

company and the first See also:

DISCOUNT

discount See also:

BANK

bank.in See also:

France. See also:

Young Delessert was travelling in See also:

England when the Revolution See also:

broke out in France, but he hastened back to join the See also:

Paris See also:

NATIONAL

National Guard in 1790, becoming an officer of See also:

ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery in 1793. His See also:

FATHER

father bought him out of the See also:

army, however, in 1795 in See also:

order to entrust him with the management of his bank. Gifted with remarkable See also:

ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy, he started many commercial enterprises, See also:

FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding the first See also:

cotton factory at Passy in 18o1, and a See also:

SUGAR

sugar factory in 1802, for which he was created a See also:

baron of the See also:

EMPIRE

empire. He sat in the chamber of deputies for many years, and was a strong See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate for many humane See also:

MEASURES

measures, notably the suppression of the " See also:

TOURS

Tours " or revolving See also:

box at the foundling See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, the suppression of the See also:

DEATH

death See also:

PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty, and the improvement of the See also:

PENITENTIARY (med. Lat. poenitentiarius, from poenitentia, penance, poena, punishment, a term used both as adjective and substantive, referring either to the means of repentance or that of punishment. In its ecclesiastical use the word is used as the equi

penitentiary See also:

SYSTEM

system. He was made See also:

REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

regent of the Bank of France in 1802, and was also member of, and, indeed, founder of many, learned and philanthropic See also:

SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies. He founded the first savings bank in France, and maintained a keen See also:

INTEREST

interest in it until his death in 1847. He was also an ardent botanist and conchologist; his botanical library embraced 30,000 volumes, of which he published a catalogue—Musa botanique de M. Delessert (1845). He also wrote See also:

DES

Des avantages de la caisse d'epargne et de prevoyance (1835), Memoire sur un projet de bibliotheque royale (1836), Le See also:

GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

Guide de See also:

BONHEUR [MARIE ROSALIE], ROSA (1822-1899)

bonheur (1839), and Recueil de coquilles decrites See also:

PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par See also:

LAMARCK,

Lamarck (1841-1842).

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