In the history of enterprise, Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert as French banker and scientist (1773-1847).
Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert was born at Lyon in 1773. His recorded nationality is France.
This was the age of chartered companies and long-distance trade, when a single voyage could make or ruin a house.
He worked as botanist, politician and banker.
His recorded holdings include Hôtel d'Uzès, parc de Passy and Hôtel Delessert.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from France shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert died in 1847, aged 74. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Holdings: Hôtel d'Uzès, parc de Passy and Hôtel Delessert
