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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, 1st Baron Empain (1852-1929) Jean Empain, 2nd Baron Empain (1902-1946) Édouard-Jean Empain, 3rd Baron Empain (1937-2018) Jean Francois Empain...
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    The Baron Empain Palace (Arabic: قصر البارون إمبان, "Qasr el Baron Emban"), also known as Le Palais Hindou (lit. 'The Hindu Palace'), is a distinctive...
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    The Villa Empain is a former private residence in Brussels, Belgium, which currently serves as a cultural centre and exhibition space. Built in 1930–1934...
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    The Empain group was a loose grouping of companies founded by Édouard Empain (1852–1929) of Belgium and controlled by the Empain family. From 1881 until...
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  • Empain-Schneider was a Franco-Belgian industrial group formed in the 1960s from the merger of Belgium's Empain group and France's Schneider & Cie. In 1980...
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  • 1969 and 1981, Baron Empain was CEO of the Schneider group (Schneider-Empain). The Baron was the son of Jean, 2nd Baron Empain, and the grandson of Édouard...
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    absorbed by Belgium's Empain group, which merged Schneider-Creusot with its corporate structures to form Empain-Schneider. In 1981, the Empain family sold its...
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    Empain, originally Louis Becker (1908—1976) was a Belgian financier. Louis was born in Brussels on 3 January 1908, the youngest son of Édouard Empain...
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    the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain and by Boghos Nubar, son of the Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Pasha. The...
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    In the 1960s, it was taken over by the Belgian Empain group and merged with it in 1969 to form Empain-Schneider, which in 1980 was renamed Schneider SA...
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  • Jean Francois Empain, 4th Baron Empain (born 5 June 1964, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a Belgian entrepreneur and the last living Baron Empain after his father's...
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    Stéphanie Empain (born 11 August 1983 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgish politician of The Greens party. She studied political science and obtained...
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    notably designed the Residence Palace, the Hôtel Le Plaza, and the Villa Empain, during the first half of the 20th century. Villa of Henri Nestlé, in Montreux...
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  • Aurelia was three, was from Leuven, Belgium, the great nephew of Édouard Empain and a descendant of Peter Paul Rubens. Kleefeld is the daughter of singer...
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  • company Schneider-Empain, later known as Schneider Group SA, French-Belgian industrial grouping, organised by Édouard-Jean Empain Schneider Foods, a...
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  • also taken hostage when he tried to secure her release. Baron Édouard-Jean Empain: Industrialist who was kidnapped for ransom. His captors cut off one of...
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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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    part of the Europa building), the Centre for Fine Arts (1928), the Villa Empain (1934), the Town Hall of Forest (1938), and the Flagey Building (formerly...
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    Museum of the National Bank of Belgium National Museum of the Resistance Toy Museum Train World Van Buuren Museum & Gardens Villa Empain Wiels Wittockiana...
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    services, industry Founded 1900; 124 years ago (1900) Founder Édouard Empain Headquarters 10, avenue de l'Entreprise 95863 Cergy-Pontoise , France Area...
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    The Compagnie Generale de Traction, owned by the Belgian Baron Édouard Empain, won the contract; this company was then immediately reorganized as the...
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    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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    current building was built in 1913 on the request of Baron François Empain [nl]. Baron Empain Palace (1911) in Cairo, Egypt Media related to Castle of Enghien...
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    several companies of the French industrial giant Schneider Group along with Empain, Merlin Gérin, and the American Westinghouse, in order to license Westinghouse's...
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    Brussels, on the Boulevard Général Jacques/Generaal Jacqueslaan, the Villa Empain (1930–1934) on the Avenue Franklin Roosevelt/Franklin Rooseveltlaan, and...
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  • officials of Egyptian society. He was also the private lawyer for both Baron Empain and the Cairo Tramways Company. On 5 January 1911 the club was established...
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    Belgium's Empain group, the Banque de l'Indochine acquired 10 percent of Schneider's capital. As a consequence of that transaction, Empain took 11 percent...
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    Mathurins no. 53), Paris, unknown architect, c.1910 Indian inspiration - Baron Empain Palace, Heliopolis, Egypt, by Alexandre Marcel, 1911 Islamic inspiration:...
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    group, he joined the Empain group, where he organized the purchase of a part of Schneider in the 1960s. He took over one of the Empain group companies on...
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