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Jacques-Rose Récamier
Jacques-Rose Récamier (10 March 1751, Lyon – 29 March 1830, Paris) was a French banker. He was also notable as the husband of the salon-leader Juliette Récamier. Life The Récamier family originated in Bugey, a region which then specialised in the leather trade and trading with Geneva. Jacques-Rose was the son of François Récamier (1709–1782), who had been born in Belley and owned several hat shops as well as managing a bank in Lyon. Jacques-Rose's mother was Emmeraude Delaroche (1725–1777), daughter of a bookseller and printer from Lyon. In 1782 he took over the bank founded by his father, and as Jacques Récamier & Cie it nurtured links with high-finance in Geneva, maintained branches in Cadiz and Madrid, and had links with British financiers and trading houses on La Réunion. It was probably involved in trading dollars alongside the Compagnie de Calonne, French East India Company in the 1780s. In Lyon on 24 April 1793 Jacques-Rose Récamier married the 15-year-ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city in France with a population of 522,250 at the Jan. 2021 census within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon Functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 2,308,818 that same year, the second largest in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Lyon Metropolis, Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,424,069 in 2021. Lyon is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region and seat of the Departmental co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
