Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe

French manufacturer and philanthropist (1847-1924)

In the history of enterprise, Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe as French manufacturer and philanthropist (1847-1924).

Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe was born at La Villette in 1847. His recorded nationality is France.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as industrialist, philanthropist and entrepreneur.

His recorded holdings include Château de Boulains.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

Recognition followed: Commander of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

That the business was built from France shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe died in 1924, aged 77. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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