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Nemours (France)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Eugene Blery's engravings of Nemours

 Collection
Accession: 1969-004
Abstract:

Eugene Blery (1805-1887) was a French artist, engraver and lithographer. This collection contains two etchings of pastoral views of Nemours in Normany, France. One depicts the French ancestral home of the du Pont family.

Dates: 1851; 1870

Place du Pont in Nemours, France photographs

 Collection
Accession: 1995-289
Abstract:

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) was a noted French Physiocrat and economic advisor to Jacques Necker and King Louis XVI. In 1784, Louis XVI made him a noble through the process of noblesse de lettres, which added the de Nemours suffix to his name. In the aftermath of the French Revolution he and his family emigrated to the United States where his son Eleuthère Irénée du Pont established the gun powder manufacturer E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. These photographs show a close-up of the Place Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours metal plaque and the building on which it hangs in Nemours France, ancestral home of the du Pont family.

Dates: 1995