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Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain.
engineer, entrepreneur, financier, industrialist (1852-1929)
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About Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain
Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain, was a wealthy Walloon Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist. During World War I he became a known major general. His major claims to fame are being the original winner of the contract to build the Paris Metro, and developing the town of Heliopolis in Cairo.
Everything about Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain →- Occupation
- banker, engineer, archaeologist, military personnel
- Position held
- aide-de-camp
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Born
- September 20, 1852
- Died
- July 22, 1929