Jules Charles-Roux
Jules Charles-Roux (born November 14, 1841 in Marseille , † March 6, 1918 in Paris ) was a French businessman and politician .
Life
The Roux family settled in Marseille in the 18th century and dedicated themselves to soap making . Julius Charles Roux spent his childhood in Sausset-les-Pins and in Montredon, a southern district of Marseille. He married Claire Canaple. Their son François Charles-Roux was born on November 19, 1879 .
Jules Roux studied in Marseille and with Eugène Chevreul in Paris and took over the management of the company after the death of his father. He modernized the company and formed an expanding company in 1877 with his brother Charles Canaple and two other shareholders , which in 1900 contributed about ten percent of the industrial production of Marseille.
Entrepreneur
In 1900 he was chairman of several shipping companies . From 1904 he was also chairman of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique , where he had a resolution at the extraordinary general meeting of July 29, 1904 to reduce the original share capital from 40 million to 12 million francs. He also held the presidency in several other trading companies , shipyards , banks and insurance companies. So he was u. a. Director of the Société marseillaise de crédit industriel et commercial (SMC). From 1910 to 1917 he was chairman of the central committee of French shipowners. Jules Roux received approval in 1910 to put his surname Charles before the surname Roux .
Politician and colonialist
In 1887 Jules Charles-Roux was elected to the city council of Marseille. Moderately republican, he became a member of the National Assembly in 1889 . In 1895 he became General Councilor of the Bouches-du-Rhône department . He was a representative of economic liberalism who opposed the protectionist policies of Minister Félix Jules Méline . Not re-elected in 1898, he nevertheless continued to exert influence in favor of an expansive colonial policy , in particular with regard to the African countries Tunisia , the Kingdom of Dahomey (today Benin) and Madagascar , also to exploit palm oil for soap production. He was the founder of several colonial bodies and president of the "Geographical Society of Marseille". He was a friend of General Joseph Gallieni and Marshal Hubert Lyautey , whose careers he promoted. For the Paris World Exhibition of 1900 he set up an exhibition under the name Les colonies françaises ("the colonies of France"). In 1906 he organized another colonial exhibition in Marseille, where he served as the so-called Commissaire Général until his death .
patron
Jules Charles-Roux was a friend of the poet Frédéric Mistral and supported his Félibrige movement. He was also a patron of the painter Stanislas Torrents.
Honors
A turbine ship was christened Charles Roux in his honor . In addition, the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named after Jules Charles-Roux an island off the west coast of Graham Land that was discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) as Roux Island .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jules Charles-Roux in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Literature by and about Jules Charles-Roux in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Sonndorfer, Die Technik des Welthandels : A Handbook of International Commerce, etc., Volume 1, Hölder, 1905, p. 203
- ^ Jules Charles-Roux at www.archive.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Charles-Roux, Jules |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roux, Jules-Charles (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French entrepreneur and politician, member of the National Assembly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1918 |
| Place of death | Paris |