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Léopold Javal
Léopold Javal (1 December 1804 – 28 May 1872) was a French banker, agriculturalist and politician. Biography Léopold was born in Mulhouse into the Javal family, a French industrialist family. His father, Jacques Javal the Younger was one of the richest men in France and established one of the first printed textile mills in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis. Léopold was part of the French army, taking part in the Algerian campaign, where he became a cavalry officer. After the war, he took control of the family banking industry, using it to invest in and organise the rail network in Alsace. Together with the industrialist, Emile Koechlin, he constructed the Mulhouse-Cernay Railroad Line. In 1851 he was elected as general council to the Gironde Gironde ( US usually, , ; oc, Gironda, ) is the largest department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album Des Députés Au Corps Législatif Entre 1852-1857-Javal
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the popularity of the cassette reached its peak during the late 1980s, sharply declined during the 1990s and had largely disapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
