Pierre laffitte biography
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Pierre Laffitte (politician)
This article is about the politician. For the positivist, see Pierre Laffitte.
French politician (1925–2021)
Pierre Laffitte (1 January 1925 – 7 July 2021) was a French politician and scientist.[1] He was the founder of Sophia Antipolis and represented Alpes-Maritimes in the Senate of France from 1985 to 2008 as a member of the Radical Party (PR).
Biography
[edit]Pierre was the son of Jean Laffitte, a painter born in Algiers, and Lucie Fink, born in Strasbourg under the German Empire. In 2007, Fink was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.[2] In 1949, Pierre married Sofia Grigorievna Glikman-Toumarkine, who died in 1979. He then married Anita Garcia in 1985, who died in 2005, and lastly married Isabelle Michel.
Laffitte graduated from the École Polytechnique and began his career with the Ministry of Industry. He left the Ministry in 1963 and became deputy director of teaching at the Corps des Mines of Mines ParisTec
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Beverly Chew at the height of his power in New Orleans
Life was good for the New Orleans business firm of Chew & Relf in the early 1800s: young partners Beverly Chew and Richard Relf controlled a virtual monopoly of the banking, shipping, trading, insurance, and olaglig transport business in the port city until around 1809, when the Laffite brothers came to town, quickly and systematically cutting into the profits of Chew & Relf’s Gulf Coast network empire.
Jean and Pierre Laffite successfully snatched away the market share of the smuggling business from Chew, Relf and their cohorts Daniel Clark, mainly because since they were getting their goods and slaves from privateers’ captured Spanish prizes, they paid nothing for their wares and consequently could sell them much cheaper because there was no middleman to pay.
The Laffites made an enemy for life of Chew in particular, and he would strike back like a snake when a prime opportunity presented itself eight years later. He wiel
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Of all the storied characters in Louisiana’s early history, two brothers—Jean and Pierre Laffite—rank among the most notorious and noteworthy. As with almost all pirates and privateers, the lives of the Laffites spawned numerous tales of secret gold and hidden treasure. As is the case with virtually all such treasure tales, they are nonsense. Remarkably little is known of their lives, and much assumed common knowledge is myth.
Early Lives
Pierre and jean Laffite (also commonly spelled efternamn in contemporary histories) were born in the village of Pauillac on the Gironde estuary in the Medoc region of France. Their father was the merchant Pierre Laffite, but they appear to have had different mothers. Pierre and Marie Lagrange had Pierre Jr. in about 1770. After Marie’s death, Pierre married Marguerite Desteil in 1775, who gave birth to Jean around 1782. The half-brothers grew up in Pauillac and, later, in Bordeaux, where they received a limited education. Their father die