Gustave Delahante

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Gustave Delahante (born November 16, 1816 in Mâcon , † April 2, 1905 in Versailles ) was a French engineer and railway entrepreneur .

Life

Delahante was the son of the banker Adrien Delahante (1788-1854), brother of the banker Adrien Delahante (1815-1884) and related to the philosopher and socialist Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin .

With the support of the banker François Bartholoni, Delahante joined the newly founded Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans in 1838 , where he became administrator, vice director in 1841 and finally director 1845–1847. In 1844, together with four other railway directors in France, he founded the Railway Conference . In 1845 he joined the board of directors of the Compagnie des mines de la Loire , of which he became director in 1853. Under the influence of Saint-Simonism , he organized a central rescue service for the mines and a free health service.

Delahante took part in various financial operations and he came into closer contact with Charles de Morny of the Société Générale du Crédit Mobilier . He was a major shareholder and member of the supervisory board of the Compagnie du chemin de fer Grand-Central de France, founded in 1853 . In 1853 he also organized the merger of the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Saint-Étienne à Lyon , the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Saint-Étienne à la Loire and the Compagnie du chemin de fer de la Loire to form the Compagnie des chemins de fer de jonction du Rhône à la Loire . Together with Morny and with the support of the Rothschilds in Spain , he participated in several railway concessions in Spain. They also acquired a steelworks and a mine in the Dordogne . In 1855, Delahante founded the Compagnie lyonnaise d'Omnibus together with Leopolde Lehon and Lacroix Saint-Pierre to operate a horse and omnibus transport system in Lyon and the surrounding area. In 1856 he became its manager.

Delahante participated in the construction of railways in Piedmont and southern Italy . With others he founded Credito Italiano , of which he was one of the main shareholders. In 1859 he was one of the founders of Crédit Industriel et Commercial , and later he also participated in other companies. He also increased his wealth through real estate deals in the seaside resort of Deauville , and he acquired the Villa Rosebery in Naples , which he kept until 1897. In 1866 he acquired the painting La Campagne de France from Ernest Meissonier in 1814 and sold it in 1890 at a high profit. In 1880 he joined the board of directors of the Chaix printing company and was its president from 1888 to 1892.

Delahante was mayor of Villars from 1850–1855 .

Delahante was the son-in-law of the Rear Admiral Count René Armand Le Vasseur de Villeblanche and father-in-law of the politician Marie de La Bouillerie.

literature

  • Bertrand Gille: La banque en France au 19e siècle: Recherches historiques , 1970.
  • Hubert Bonin: Histoire de la Société générale, Volume 1 , 2006.
  • Dominique Barjot: Les patrons du Second Empire: Banquiers et financiers parisiens , 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Guillaume: La Compagnie des mines de la Loire (1846-1854): Essai sur l'apparition de la grande industrie capitaliste en France , 1969.
  2. ↑ Bertrand Gille: Histoire de la maison Rothschild, Volume 1 , 1965.
  3. ^ Miguel A. López-Morell: The House of Rothschild in Spain, 1812-1941 . Ashgate Publishing , Farnham 2013, ISBN 978-0754668008 .
  4. ↑ Dominique Barjot, Eric Anceau, Nicolas Stoskopf: Morny et l'invention de Deauville , 2010.
  5. ↑ Sylvie Belnard: L'Imprimerie Chaix de 1845 à 1881 . Bulletin du Center d'histoire de la France contemporaine, Université de Paris X-Nanterre, No. 11, 1990, pp. 115-122.
personal data
SURNAME Delahante, Gustave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Mâcon
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1905
Place of death Versailles