In the history of enterprise, Jean Chardin is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jean Chardin as French jeweler, traveler and author.
Jean Chardin was born at Paris in 1643. His recorded nationality is France.
Commerce then ran on personal credit, family networks and letters that took weeks to arrive; trust was the scarcest asset.
He worked as traveler, writer and merchant.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: knighthood (1681).
That the business was built from France shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Jean Chardin died in 1713, aged 70. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- knighthood — 1681
