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Fould Family
The Fould family is a family of French Jewish descent known for success in banking. It was founded by Beer Léon Fould, a wine-dealer's son from Lorraine, who moved to Paris in 1784 to establish a banking business. The name comes from the Hessian city of Fulda. Family tree *Jacob Fould (1736–1830), wine dealer ** Beer Léon Fould (1767–1855), banker, married to Charlotte Brulhen (1766–1818) *** Rose Fould Furtado (1791-1870), married to Élie Furtado, the son of the rabbi of Bayonne and the nephew of Abraham Furtado **** Cécile Charlotte Furtado-Heine (1821-1896), philanthropist and wife of Frankfurt banker Charles Heine *** Benoît Fould (1792–1858), banker and art collector, married to Helena Oppenheim, daughter of Salomon Oppenheim (1772–1828), banker *** Louis Fould (1794–1858), banker, married to Adèle Brull (1809–1839) **** Édouard Fould (1834–1881), politician, mayor of Lurcy-Lévis *** Achille Fould (1800–1867), banker and French minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Stern-Charles Durant
Marguerite may refer to: People * Marguerite (given name), including a list of people with the name Places * Marguerite, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula * Marguerite Island, Adélie Land, Antarctica Entertainment * ''Marguerite'' (musical), a 2008 West End musical by Michel Legrand *"Margueritte", a song by Oregon from the album ''Winter Light'' * ''Marguerite'' (2015 film), a French film * ''Marguerite'' (2017 film), a Canadian film Ships *, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 *, another United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 and 1919; renamed ''SP-892'' in 1918 to avoid confusion *, a Royal Navy sloop transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1920 * ''Marguerite'' (ship), a French cargo ship launched in 1912, sunk by a U-boat in 1917 Plants *'' Argyranthemum'', a genus of plants in the daisy family, especially '' A. frutescens'' * Garden marguerites, a group of hybrids der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lurcy-Lévis
Lurcy-Lévis () is a commune on the northern limits the Allier department in Auvergne in central France. It is around east of Saint-Amand-Montrond and the A71 autoroute and west of ( Moulins) and the N7. Population Economy Within Lurcy-Lévis, there is a small Atac supermarket, a tourist information centre and a few specialist shops. Lurcy-Lévis was the home to Sociétie A Baudin a manufacturer of woodworking machines and particular for the machines needed to turn and hollow a full wooden clog. File:Musée des métiers du bois de Labaroche 157.jpg, Lathe File:Musée des métiers du bois de Labaroche 165.jpg, Lurcy-Levy! The clog on the left is the template- and the one on the right is being cut to match. File:Zaanse Schans Clogs Making.jpg, In the Netherlands Sport Nearby there is also a motor racing test track able to accommodate F1 and F3 racing cars. The Grand Prix circuit of Magny-Cours Magny-Cours () is a commune in the Nièvre department in central Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camondo
The Camondo family was a prominent European family of Jewish financiers and philanthropists. History Part of the Sephardic community in Spain, the Camondo family settled in Venice after the 1492 Spanish decree that ordered the expulsion of all Jews who refused conversion to Catholicism. There, some of its members became famous for their scholarship and for the services which they rendered to their adopted country. Following the Austrian takeover of Venice in 1798, members of the Camondo family established themselves in Istanbul. Despite the many restrictions and sumptuary laws imposed on non-Muslims, the family flourished as merchants in the business section at Galata on the outskirts of the city. They branched into finance in 1802 with the founding of their own bank, ''Isaac Camondo & Cie''. On Isaac's death in 1832, his brother Abraham Salomon Camondo inherited the bank. He prospered greatly and became the prime banker to the Ottoman Empire until the founding of the Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Péreire
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin". Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is or Eugenie. Egon, a common given name in parts of central and northern Europe, is also a variant of Eugene / Eugine. Other male foreign-language variants include: People |
Joseph Günzburg
Joseph Günzburg (Osip Gavrilovich Gintsburg, Осип Гаврилович Гинцбург (or ''Iosif-Evzel'', ''Иосиф-Евзель''); 1812 in Vitebsk – 12 January 1878 in Paris) was a Russian financier and philanthropist who became a baron in 1874. He was the son of Gabriel Günzburg and the father of Horace Günzburg. Having acquired great wealth during the Crimean war, Günzburg established a banking firm at St. Petersburg. There he began to labor on behalf of the welfare of the Jewish community. In November 1861, he was appointed by the Russian government member of the rabbinical commission, the meetings of which lasted five months. He exerted himself to raise the standard of the education of the Jews, and to this effect he founded in 1863 with the permission of the Russian government the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews, of which he filled the office of president till his death. Owing to Günzburg's efforts, the regulations concerning the milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Achille-Fould
Georges Achille-Fould or George-Achille Fould-Stirbey (24 August 1868 – 24 August 1951) was a French painter. Achille-Fould was born in Asnières-sur-Seine as the daughter of the actress Josephine Wilhelmine Valérie Simonin, better known under her pseudonym Gustave Haller, and politician Gustave-Eugène Fould (one of the Fould family bankers). She was adopted along with her sister, the painter Consuelo Fould, by the Prince Stirbey. Her painting ''Courtship'' was included in the 1905 book ''Women Painters of the World''. Her work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Achille-Fould died in Brussels. File:Rosa Bonheur dans son atelier par Fould.jpg, ''Rosa Bonheur Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include ''Ploughing in the Nivernais'', fir ... in her at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Fould
Consuelo Fould (22 November 1862 – 1927) was a French painter. Fould was born in Cologne as the daughter of the actress Josephine Wilhelmine Valérie Simonin, better known under her pseudonym Gustave Haller, and politician Gustave-Eugène Fould, of the Fould family of bankers. She was adopted along with her sister, the painter Georges Achille Fould, by the Prince Stirbey. She was a pupil of Antoine Vollon and Léon Comerre and exhibited at the Paris Salon. Consuelo Fould married the Marquis de Grasse. She was the founder of the Museum Roybet Fould in Courbevoie. She died in Paris. Her painting ''Will You Buy?'' was included in the 1905 book ''Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication. Th ...''.Women painters of the world, from the time of Cater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valérie Simonin
Wilhelmine-Joséphine Simonin, known as Valérie Simonin, Lady Gustave Fould and Gustave Haller (19 December 1831, Paris – 25 June 1919, Pontaillac) was a French actress and author. Life Wilhelmine-Joséphine Simonin was born on 19 December 1831 in Paris. In 1850, she entered the Paris Conservatory The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ..., and in 1852, she won the first prize for the comedy and immediately debuted at the Odeon theater. From 1853 to 1859, Simonin was a board member of the French Comedy ( Comédie française). In 1859, she quit theater and went to London to live with her mother and restore old books as she learned from her father. Simonin married Gustave Eugene Fould with whom she had two daughters, Consuello and Achille-Valéri. Returning to Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Régine Achille-Fould
Regine () or Régine is a feminine given name. Regine is a German-French form of Regina, and Régine is a French form of Regina. People with the first name include: Regine * Regine Heitzer (born 1944), Austrian figure skater * Regine Hildebrandt (1941–2001), German biologist and politician * Regine Mösenlechner (born 1961), German alpine skier * Regine Olsen (1822–1904), Danish woman who was engaged to the philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard * Regine Velasquez (born 1970), Filipino singer, actress, record producer, designer and TV host * Regina Jonas (German: Regine Jonas) (1902–1944), German woman who became the first female rabbi Régine * Régine Chassagne (born 1976), Canadian musician and founding member of the band ''Arcade Fire'' * Régine Crespin (1927–2007), French opera soprano * Régine Deforges (1935–2014), French author, editor, director and playwright * Régine Pernoud Régine Pernoud (17 June 1909, Château-Chinon, Nièvre – 22 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Heine
Armand Heine (1818 – 9 November 1883) was a Jewish banker and philanthropist born in Bordeaux, France, who later lived in his chateau and vineyard, Beychevelle in Bordeaux. With his brother Michel he founded the famous bank Armand & Michel Heine, in cooperation with Rothschild Frères & Co. in Paris, France, and New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Armand was married to Marie-Amélie Kohn, daughter of a famous, very rich Jewish family, born in Bohemia. Armand Heine died in 1883 at Beychevelle, leaving 22000 francs The franc is any of various units of currency. One franc is typically divided into 100 centimes. The name is said to derive from the Latin inscription ''francorum rex'' (King of the Franks) used on early French coins and until the 18th centu ... in his will for the funding of housing for the poor of Paris. You could read in the Paris newspapers of the time: Thanks to the generosity of the philanthropical society of the family of Michel and Armand Heine a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hautes-Pyrénées
Hautes-Pyrénées (; Gascon/ Occitan: ''Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus'' awts piɾeˈnɛʊs es, Altos Pirineos; ca, Alts Pirineus alts piɾiˈneʊs English: Upper Pyrenees) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. In 2019, its population was 229,567;Populations légales 2019: 65 Hautes-Pyrénées INSEE its prefecture is . It is named after the mountain range. History Historically the area broadly ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
