Louis-Dreyfus family

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Group.png Louis-Dreyfus family  
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Founder Léopold Louis-Dreyfus
Interest ofJacques de Nervo
Membership•  Louis Louis-Dreyfus
•  Marie-Jeanne Louis-Dreyfus
•  Robert Louis-Dreyfus
•  Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
•  Charles Louis-Dreyfus
•  Pierre Louis-Dreyfus
•  Philippe Louis-Dreyfus
French-Jewish business family of the large grain merchant Louis-Dreyfus Group

TheLouis-Dreyfus is a French-Jewish business family, descendant of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus (1833-1915), founder in 1851 of the grain merchant Louis-Dreyfus Group and of the shipping company Louis Dreyfus Armateurs.

By the early 20th century, the Louis-Dreyfus family was described as one of the "top five biggest fortunes of France".

Along with Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, and Cargill, the Louis-Dreyfus Group is one of the four "ABCD" companies that dominate world agricultural commodity trading.[1]

People

  • Léopold (Louis-)Dreyfus (1833-1915), founder. He married Émilie Rose Lang.
    • Louis Louis-Dreyfus (1867-1940), deputy from Lozère, co-director of the group after 1915. He married Emma Lévi.
      • Line Louis-Dreyfus.
      • Jean Georges Florac Louis-Dreyfus, (1908-2003), co-director of the group after 1940. He married Jeanne Madeleine Depierre.
      • François Louis-Dreyfus (1909-1958), co-director of the group after 1940. He married Galina Tkatch, then in a second wedding Monique de Nervo, daughter of Jacques de Nervo.
        • (1) Alain Louis-Dreyfus.
        • (1) France Louis-Dreyfus.
    • Charles Louis-Dreyfus (1870-1929), co-director of the group after 1915. He married Sarah Hément.
      • Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (1908-2011), co-director of the group after 1940. He married Dolorès Neubauer in 1929, then in a second wedding Claude Singer in 1937.


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