Gradis Family
Gradis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Gaston Gradis (1889-1968), French businessman and explorer *Henri Gradis (1823-1905), French businessman and historian *Raoul Gradis Raoul Gradis (15 June 1861 – 18 June 1943) was a French painter, composer and shipowner. Origins Raoul Gradis was the son of Moïse Henri Gradis (1823–1905) and Hanna Claire (Brandame) Gradis (1835–1925). His family was Jewish, and ha ...

Gaston Gradis
Gaston Gradis (7 May 1889 – 15 January 1968) was a French businessman and explorer. He came from a wealthy family of Bordeaux shipowners. After serving as an artillery captain in World War I, he became the head of various transport and trading businesses. He is known for having undertaken the first crossing of the Sahara by automobile in 1924. Early years Gaston Gradis was born in Paris on 7 May 1889, from an old family of Bordeaux shipowners. His family, which was Jewish, had been granted the right to obtain property in the colonies by Louis XVI. His parents were Raoul Gradis (1861–1943) and Suzanne Fould. His grandfather, Henri Gradis (1823–1905) was a grandson of Laure Sarah Rodrigues-Henriques. He was a nephew of Georges Schwob d'Héricourt (1864–1942) and cousin of Germaine de Rothschild (1884–975), wife of Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949). Gradis joined the École Polytechnique in 1910. In 1911 he volunteered for the army, joining the Artill ...
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Henri Gradis
Moïse Henri Gradis (30 July 1823 – 23 January 1905) was a French businessman and historian. Life Moïse Henri Gradis was born on 30 July 1823 in Bordeaux. He came from a family of prominent Portuguese-Jewish Bordeaux merchants who had flourished in the 18th century but were ruined by the French Revolution and the insurrections in Santo Domingo and Martinique. His parents were Benjamin Gradis (1789–1858) and Laure Sarah Rodrigues Henriquès (1803–46). In 1853 he married Claire Brandame (1835–1925). Their son was Raoul Gradis (1861–1943). Their daughter Emma Gradis married Georges Schwob d'Héricourt in 1889. The '' Maison Gradis'' recovered, and by 1892 was selling sugar from several producers in Bordeaux, Nantes and Marseille. Henri Gradis was deputy mayor of Bordeaux in 1864 and 1876. He was also author of a history of Bordeaux and several other literary works. His history of the 1848 revolution won praise for its accuracy and lack of bias. Moïse Henri Gradis died i ...
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