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Aux Etats-Unis
Aux États-Unis (literally meaning ''"To the United States"'') is a Parisian trunkmaker established in 1845. History Founding ''Aux États-Unis'' went into business in 1845 at 229, rue Saint Honoré, in Paris, two doors down from Goyard. Owners Rousselle and Gérard (1845-1890): Charles Étienne Rousselle is the founder and first owner of the brand. When he died, his widow ran the shop before she assigned the business to L. Gérard. Deraisme family (1891-1985): In 1891, Eugène Louis Deraisme took over the enterprise; it then successively came under the management of his first wife, Hélène Bordat, his son André Eugène and finally his grandson François who succeeded his father in 1942. The brand eventually disappeared in the 1980s when François Deraisme retired. Luvanis (since 2011): Luvanis, an investment company specialized in the revival of long-dormant luxury brands and which reintroduced the trunk makers Moynat and Au Départ,{{Cite web, url=https://www.forbes.c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trunkmaker
A malletier is, in French, literally a trunk-maker, or manufacturer of luggage and suitcases Trunkmaking French philosopher Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert made mention of a ''Malletier'' and his techniques in their ''Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des métiers et des arts'' (1713-1784 Notable malletiers French malletiers The first houses of malletiers appeared in Paris the middle of the 19th century. The most famous historical malletiers include: , founded in 1834 upon the advent of railway travel. In 1847 A ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Carton De Wiart
:''This article uses a Belgian surname: the surname is Carton de Wiart, not Wiart.'' Henry Victor Marie Ghislain, Count Carton de Wiart (31 January 1869 – 6 May 1951) was the prime minister of Belgium from 20 November 1920 to 6 May 1921. He was member of the aristocratic house of Carton de Wiart, his brother Edmond Carton de Wiart was the Grand Marshall of King Baudouin. Career Born in Brussels, Carton de Wiart studied law and became a lawyer. In 1894 he founded the cultural review ''Durendal'', together with Pol Demade and Henry Moeller. He was elected to the Belgian House of Representatives as a left-wing Catholic Party member in 1896. He remained a Member of Parliament until his death in 1951. Besides serving as prime minister from 1920 to 1921 in a government of national union (Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists), he served as minister of justice from 1911 to 1918, as Belgian delegate to the League of Nations from 1928 to 1935, and as minister of social welf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gardner Coolidge
John Gardner Coolidge (July 4, 1863 – February 28, 1936) was an American collector, diplomat, author, and nephew of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Early life Coolidge was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 4, 1863. He was the second of five sons born to Harvard University Law School graduate Joseph Randolph Coolidge and Julia (née Gardner) Coolidge, both from prominent and wealthy Boston Brahmin families. His siblings included professor and diplomat Archibald Cary Coolidge, noted lawyer Harold Jefferson Coolidge Sr. (the father of zoologist Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr.), architect J. Randolph Coolidge Jr. and mathematician and professor Julian Lowell Coolidge.Harvard University Archives, call no. HUG-1299: Coolidge, Archibald Cary, 1866-1928. Papers of Archibald Cary Coolidge : an inventory'', with a biography. URL retrieved 2011-01-11. His paternal uncle was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, the Boston businessman and U.S. Minister to France. His father, Joseph Randolph Coolid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Eve Balfour
Lady Evelyn Barbara Balfour, (16 July 1898 – 16 January 1990) was a British farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at an English university, graduating from the institution now known as the University of Reading. Biography Balfour was one of the six children of Gerald, 2nd Earl of Balfour, and Lady Elizabeth Edith "Betty" Bulwer-Lytton, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lytton (former Viceroy of India). She was the niece of former prime minister Arthur J. Balfour. She decided at the age of 12 that she wanted to be a farmer. At the age of 17, she enrolled, as one of the first women students to do so, at Reading University College for the Diploma of Agriculture. After obtaining her Diploma in 1917, she completed a year's practical farming, living in 'digs' at 102 Basingstoke Road, Reading. During this time she worked at Manor Farm ploughing fields. She was subsequently appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor (January 11, 1806 – May 23, 1882) was a 19th-century New York merchant and banker and one of the wealthiest men of that century. At his death, his estate was reported to be worth $70 million, or about $ billion in today's dollars. He controlled the National City Bank of New York (later to become Citibank), the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, and the Moses Taylor & Co. import business, and he held numerous other investments in railroads and industry. Early life Taylor was born on January 11, 1806, to Jacob B. Taylor and Martha (née Brant) Taylor. His father was a close associate of John Jacob Astor and acted as his agent by purchasing New York real estate while concealing Astor's interest. Astor's relationship with the Taylor family provided Moses with an early advantage. Career At age 15, Moses Taylor began working at J. D. Brown shippers. He soon moved to a clerk's position in the firm of Gardiner Greene Howland and Samuel Howland's firm G. G. & S. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyce Thompson
William Boyce Thompson (May 13, 1869 – June 27, 1930) was an American mining engineer, financier, prominent in the Republican party, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining. Thompson was one of the significant early twentieth century mine operators that discovered and exploited vast copper deposits that revolutionized Western American mining, and reaped for themselves tremendous fortunes. He currently has a school named after him in Yonkers, New York, called the William Boyce Thompson school. History Born in Virginia City, Montana, and raised in Butte, he was schooled in the rough mining towns of southwest Montana - but also at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Columbia School of Mines. During the 1890s he joined his father, William, one-time mayor of Butte, in Montana mining and lumber ventures, before moving east to become a mine promoter and stockbroker. His first success, the Shannon Copper Company – where he opened mines, built a smelter, and a railroad betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 – August 22, 1989) was a French-American fashion columnist and editor. She worked for the fashion magazine ''Harper's Bazaar'' and as editor-in-chief at ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', later becoming a special consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was named on the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964. Vreeland coined the term ' in 1965. Early life Born Diana Dalziel in Paris, France in 1903, she lived at 5 avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne (known as Avenue Foch post-World War I). Vreeland was the eldest daughter of an American socialite mother, Emily Key Hoffman (1876–1928), and a British stockbrokerDiana Vreeland papers 1899-2000 (bulk 1930-1989), ''The New York Public Libr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Boucherit
Jules Boucherit (29 March 1877 – 1 April 1962) was a French violinist and renowned violin pedagogue. Jules Boucherit was born in Morlaix. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris, studying under Jules Garcin. Later he taught at the same conservatoire; notable students include Serge Blanc, Janine Andrade, Ginette Neveu, Manuel Rosenthal, Henri Temianka, Manuel Quiroga, Ivry Gitlis, Michel Schwalbé, Devy Erlih, Michèle Auclair anMarcel Chailley who became Boucherit's assistant. He played with pianist Louis Diémer, with his sister, pianist and composer Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure, and later with Magda Tagliaferro between 1910 and 1922. He made several 78rpm recordings. Boucherit married his pupil Denise Soriano (1916–2006). He died in 1962 in Paris. *Les Secrets du Violon: Souvenirs de Jules Boucherit (1877–1962) by Jules Boucherit / 9782867420450 Publisher Editions des Cendres References External linksHistory of Notable French Artists [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Cartier (jeweler)
Jacques-Théodule Cartier (2 February 1884 – 10 September 1941) was a French jeweler and Cartier jewelry company executive Early life Cartier was born on 2 February 1884 in Paris. He was one of three sons of Alfred Cartier (1841–1925) and Amélie Alice ( née Griffeuille) Cartier (1853–1914). His two brothers were Pierre Cartier and Louis Cartier. His grandfather, Louis-François Cartier had taken over the jewellery workshop of his teacher, Adolphe Picard, in 1847, thereby founding the famous Cartier jewelry company. Cartier graduated from Collège Stanislas de Paris. Career Jacques worked with his two older brothers to create the world-famous name and business, 'Cartier', in jewellery and watches. While Jacques opened and managed the store in London, Pierre managed the store in New York City. Jacques took charge of the London operation of Cartier in 1909 and eventually moved to the current location at 175 New Bond Street. Meanwhile, Louis was the designer who created th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Livingstone
David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. David was the husband of Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th Century missionary family, Moffat. He had a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. Livingstone's fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab–Swahili slave trade. "The Nile sources", he told a friend, "are valuabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Bernstein
Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (20 June 1876 – 27 November 1953) was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre. Biography Bernstein was born in Paris. His earliest plays, including ''La Rafale'' (1905), ''Le Voleur'' (1907), ''Samson'' (1908), ''Israël'' (1908), and ''Le Secret'' (1913), are written in a realistic style and powerfully depict harsh realities of modern life and society. The far-right royalist ''Camelots du Roi'' youth organization of the ''Action française'' organized an anti-Semitic riot against a production of one of his plays in 1911. During the Second World War, he fled to the United States and lived in New York City at the Waldorf Astoria. Jean-Pierre Aumont relates in his work ''Le Soleil et les Ombres'' (Robert Laffont, 1976) the luxury in which he lived, as well as his general lack of interest in the war. He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris. Works *''Le Marché'' (The Market), 1900 *''Le Détour'', 1902 *''Joujou'', 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernand Gravey
Fernand Gravey (25 December 1905 in Ixelles (Belgium) – 2 November 1970 in Paris, France),Death certificate # 8/445/1970 also known as Fernand Gravet in the United States, was the son of actors Georges Mertens and Fernande Depernay, who appeared in silent films produced by pioneer Belge Cinéma Film (a subsidiary of Pathé). Early life Gravey started performing at age five under his father's direction. Before World War I, he received an education in Britain and could speak both French and English fluently, something which became useful in his movie roles. During the war, Gravey served in the British Merchant Marine Corp. In 1936, he married the French actress Jane Renouardt, who was 15 years his senior. They remained together until his death on 2 November 1970 of a heart-attack. Jane died on 3 February 1972. They had no children. Film career Gravey performed in four films in 1913 and 1914 (as Fernand Mertens), but his first film of importance was '' L'Amour Chante'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
