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    Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain (20 September 1852 – 22 July 1929), was a wealthy Walloon Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist...
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  • Empain was CEO of the Schneider group (Schneider-Empain). The Baron was the son of Jean, 2nd Baron Empain, and the grandson of Édouard Louis Joseph,...
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    chose the General Traction Company, owned by the Belgian Baron Édouard Louis Joseph Empain. An act of 30 March 1898 declared a public utility for "the construction...
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    estimated to be 142,017 and in El-Nozha was 244,869 people. Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain visited Egypt in January 1904 to rescue one of the projects...
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    Closson worked with chief architect Alexandre Marcel for developer Édouard Louis Joseph Empain. Closson also executed Marcel's competition-winning design for...
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    Enghien gardens were sold in 1924. The buyer is François Empain (1862–1935), brother of Édouard Empain, who already rented the estate. He paid much attention...
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  • was also taken hostage when he tried to secure her release. Baron Édouard-Jean Empain: Industrialist who was kidnapped for ransom. His captors cut off...
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    Los Angeles, California, by Claud Beelman (1930) Entrance of the Villa Empain in Ixelles (Brussels) by Michel Polak (1930–1934) Cincinnati Union Terminal...
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    it became known as Wallonia. Édouard Empain, (1852–1929), a wealthy engineer and entrepreneur; built the Paris Métro Louis De Geer, (1587–1652) merchant...
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    Jules De Blauwe Major General Doctor Antoine Depage Major General Baron Edouard Empain Plk. gst. Jaroslav Hajicek (Czechoslovakia) Belgium portal Orders, decorations...
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  • Joris Helleputte, architect and politician (died 1925) 20 September – Édouard Empain, engineer-entrepreneur (died 1929) 2 December – Lucien Bia, soldier...
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    Jules De Blauwe Major General Doctor Antoine Depage Major General Baron Edouard Empain Belgium portal Orders, decorations, and medals of Belgium "Royal Decree...
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    and The Compagnie Generale de Traction, owned by the Belgian Baron Édouard Empain, won the contract; this company was then immediately reorganised as...
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    group the next day. The kidnappers of a Belgian industrialist, Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, freed him after nine weeks of captivity after the chief suspect...
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    1906 the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain and his Egyptian counterpart Boghos Nubar, built a suburb called Heliopolis...
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  • (Grand Officier), civil servant Baron Édouard Descamps (Grand Officier), jurist and politician Édouard Empain (Officier, 1900), engineer, financier and...
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    Frédéric de Reiffenberg 1850–1887: Louis-Joseph Alvin 1887–1904: Edouard Fétis 1904–1909: Henri Hymans 1909–1912: Joseph Van den Gheyn, S.J. 1912–1914: Dom...
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    with a further 1,500 kilometers in China. One Belgian entrepreneur, Édouard Empain, known as the "Tramway King", built many public transport systems across...
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    (née Virginia Cherrill, previously Grant) on 30 July 1937 Rozell Empain, Baroness Empain (née Rozell Rowland) on 4 November 1937 Barbara Petty-Fitzmaurice...
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  • Hassan El Glaoui, 93, Moroccan painter. Édouard-Jean Empain, 80, French-Belgian industrialist (Schneider-Empain) and kidnapping victim. H. Tristram Engelhardt...
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  • Edfu-Project Edfu South pyramid Edme-François Jomard Édouard de Villiers du Terrage Édouard Empain Édouard Naville Edward Hincks Edward R. Ayrton Edwin C....
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    exporters was Édouard Empain, nicknamed the "Tramway King", whose company ran infrastructure projects across Europe, Asia and South America. Empain's projects...
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    Cairo, where he served the Belgian imperial interests of, for example, Édouard Empain and the Tramways d'Alexandrie. Shortly after his displacement to Egypt...
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