Amédée Armand

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Amédée Armand (born May 31, 1807 in Marseille ; † February 18, 1881 ibid) was a French entrepreneur .

Life

Amédée Armand was the son of Camille Hélène Floret from a family of civil servants in Toulouse and Pierre Charles Armand, pioneer of the steam mills in Marseille.

Armand attended the Lycée Thiers and studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence . He was indeed a lawyer admitted, but he would rather followed the business of his father. In 1833 he traveled to Sicily on behalf of soda manufacturers who wanted to control the sulfur market more closely.

Armand then became interested in the mining industry , especially lignite , especially since he had also studied geology . He studied the extension of the lignite basin in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the direction of La Fare-les-Oliviers and Étang de Berre in the lower part of the Arc basin. In England he got to know the new exploration techniques in order to be able to apply them in his home region. In 1838 he acquired a concession for an area near Fuveau , and in 1841 he founded the Charbon du rocher bleu company . He used steam engines to pull up the wagons and pump out the groundwater . To recycle the lignite waste, he founded a lignite briquette factory in Marseille in 1846 and participated in the establishment of the Société des charbons agglomérés du sud-est .

In 1847 Armand founded the company Les forges de la Capelette to manufacture pipes for steam boilers . This company merged in 1851 with the Taylor de Menpenti plant in Marseille and the shipyard in La Seyne-sur-Mer owned by Philip Taylor , from which the Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée emerged. He was also a member of the supervisory board of the Société marseillaise de crédit , the Société des raffineries de Saint Louis (later Saint Louis Sucre ) and the Société immobilière marseillaise .

In 1854 Armand, together with his sister Eugénie Armand, had an octagonal tower built on his country estate on the outskirts of Marseille as a monument to the Immaculate Conception of Mary , which Pope Pius IX. Had announced in 1854. The tower was consecrated in 1856, and the chapel was consecrated by Eugene de Mazenod . In 2001 the tower was recognized as a monument historique . He and his sister also financed numerous Catholic charities .

Armand was a member of the Marseilles Chamber of Commerce , of which he was president from 1866 to 1873. During this time he worked to expand the ports of Marseille. At his suggestion, the Chamber of Commerce took on the obligation to donate a large wax candle every year for the commemoration in the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Marseille to commemorate the end of the plague in 1722 in Marseille.

Armand was childless. His inheritance fell to his nephew Albert Armand.

Honors

literature

  • Roland Carty, Éliane Richard, Pierre Échinard. Les patrons du Second Empire: Marseille . Picard, Paris 1999 ( ISBN 2-905596-62-7 ), pp. 48-51.
  • Jean Chélini, Félix Reynaud, Madeleine Villard: Dictionnaire des Marseillais . Académie de Marseille Diff. Edisud, Marseille Aix-en-Provence 2001, ( ISBN 978-2-7449-0254-3 ), p. 23.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrien Blés: Dictionnaire historique des rues de Marseille . Éditions Jeanne Laffitte , Marseille 1989, ISBN 2-86276-195-8 , p. 368.
  2. ↑ Bastide de Tour Sainte (accessed February 15, 2016).
  3. ^ Roland Carty, Éliane Richard, Pierre Échinard. Les patrons du Second Empire: Marseille . Picard, Paris 1999 ( ISBN 2-905596-62-7 ), p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Armand, Amédée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1881
Place of death Marseille