Daniel Vasserot

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Daniel Vasserot (* 1659 in Saint-Véran ; † 1733 ) was a French industrialist.

Live and act

Vasserot is considered one of the first industrialists in France. He experienced his training and his first attempts in his home country. But when, on October 18, 1685, King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes with his Edict of Fontainebleau , Vasserot went into exile in Switzerland.

In 1691 he founded the first cotton spinning and weaving mill there together with his brother-in-law Daniel Fazy in Eaux-Vives . In 1706 the company "Antoine Fazy & Co." was founded in Pâquis

Honors

The Rue de Vasserot in Bayonne and the Boulevard Vasserot in Saint-Tropez are named in his honor.

literature

  • Niklaus Stettler: Cotton, Slaves and Loans. The Basel global trading company "Christoph Burckhart% Cie." In revolutionary times; 1789-1815 . Merian, Basel 2004, ISBN 3-85616-212-7 .
  • Jean Tivollier: Molines en Queyras. Monograph physique, historique, economique etc. Grosjean, Lyon 1913.
  • Jean Tivollier: Monograph de la vallée du Queyras, Hautes-Alpes . Jean & Peyrot, Gap 1897.
  • Anne Wanner-JeanRichard: Le coton et la mode. 1000 ans d'aventures . Somogy, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-87900-490-X , pp. 74–81 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Musée de la mode et du costume Paris, November 10, 2001 to March 11, 2001).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Today a district of Geneva .
  2. ↑ Today a district of Geneva.
personal data
SURNAME Vasserot, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Véran
DATE OF DEATH 1733