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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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    northeast of central Cairo, Egypt. It was built in 1905 for Édouard Empain, Baron Empain, a Belgian businessman and industrialist with particular interests...
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  • Édouard-Jean, 3rd Baron Empain (7 October 1937 – 21 June 2018) was a French-Belgian industrialist, best known by the general public for his kidnapping...
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    Michel Polak, the villa was commissioned by Baron Louis Empain, son of the industrialist Édouard Empain. It subsequently served as offices and an embassy before...
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    primogeniture.: 197  Édouard Empain, 1st Baron Empain (1852-1929) Jean Empain, 2nd Baron Empain (1902-1946) Édouard-Jean Empain, 3rd Baron Empain (1937-2018) Jean...
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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 after his father's death in June 2018. Jean Francois Empain was born to Édouard-Jean Empain and his first wife, Silvana Betuzzi. His parents were divorced...
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  • The Empain affair was an incident that began in January 1978, when a Belgian businessman, Baron Édouard-Jean Empain, a wealthy heir and chairman and CEO...
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    by the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain and by Boghos Nubar, son of the Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Pasha...
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    1913. A crypt within the cathedral houses the remains of its financer, Édouard Empain, and his family. A co-cathedral since 2008,[citation needed] it follows...
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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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  • Ernest Jaspar as part of the larger Heliopolis project being done by Édouard Empain. Billed as the most luxurious hotel in Africa and the Middle East, the...
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  • when 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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    25 square kilometres north-east of Cairo, with Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain and Boghos Nubar Pasha, son of the former Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar...
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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 reorganized as...
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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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    distinct Heliopolis style modeled after the orientalist designs of Édouard Empain. The school's early classes had a small number of girls most of whom...
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    experience and for that, he became one of the few advisors of Édouard Empain, Baron Empain during the foundation of the Heliopolis suburb. Also, he was...
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    includes people from the region before it became known as Wallonia. Édouard Empain, (1852–1929), a wealthy engineer and entrepreneur; built the Paris Métro...
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  • Moranville, Chevalier. Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Commander Baron Édouard Empain, Commander. Marie Joseph Charles, 6th Duke d'Ursel, commander. Alfred...
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    It was founded in 1906 by a private partnership between the Belgian Édouard Empain and the Egyptian Boghos Nubar Pasha and it grew over the following decades...
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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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    Guangdong–Hankou railway. Most of the shares in the Belgian company were owned by Édouard Empain, and this move threatened to place the entire route between Beijing...
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    infrastructure, services, industry Founded 1900; 124 years ago (1900) Founder Édouard Empain Headquarters 10, avenue de l'Entreprise 95863 Cergy-Pontoise , France...
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    in 1909 were the CCCI, the Banque d'Outremer, the SGB, the Comfina, Édouard Empain, the Banque de Bruxelles, De Nederlandsche Bank, and banker Franz Philippson...
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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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    court for services rendered. Notable people include Major General Baron Édouard Empain, Count Charles John d'Oultremont, and Lieutenant General Baron Albert...
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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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  • 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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    Heliopolis Suburb of Cairo. This palace was designed by the Belgian engineer Édouard Empain to give it to Sultan Hussein Kamel, but he refused to take the palace...
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