Antoine Dominique Bordes
Antoine-Dominique Bordes (1815-1883) was a French shipowner and business manager, founder of the shipping company that bears his name, long the largest in the world.
| Antoine Dominique Bordes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 July 1815 |
Career
Born on July 22, 1815 in the Gers ( France ) where his father was a doctor (from the faculty of Paris), he joined his older brother Antoine-Dominique at the age of 16, who ran a grain and flour trade in Bordeaux.[1] Baptized Antoine Apollinaire, he takes the name of his brother in Chile for his business.
Antoine-Dominique Bordes left at the age of 18 on the Scythian to Latin America and arrived in Valparaíso ( Chile ). He then began to work as a shipping agent and to create a commercial entourage. In 1837 he founded a consignment house. In 1840, at the age of 25, he joined forces with Captain Ange-Casimir le Quellec to create a port trading company between Bordeaux and Valparaiso, which was transformed in 1847 into a maritime shipping company with headquarters in Bordeaux.[2]
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After the death of Le Quellec, the Bordes navigation company was created in 1868. Until the death of the founder, the company established itself on Boulevard Malesherbes in Paris and organized its traffic from the ports of Bordeaux, Nantes, Dunkirk, Le Havre . From the 1870s his ships also carried Chilean nitrate to Liverpool and Glasgow.[2]
From February 1857 to July 1859, the Pereire brothers hired him to straighten out the helm of the Compagnie Générale Maritime . During this period, he was the extraordinary administrator-general. He then befriended Wulfran Puget, also a shipowner : his sons will baptize one of their boats in his name.
References
- ↑ Société archéologique, historique (1958-10-01). "Bulletin de la Société archéologique, historique littéraire & scientifique du Gers". Gallica (in français). Retrieved 2023-01-29.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Antoine-Dominique Bordes (1815-1883)". data.bnf.fr (in français). Retrieved 2023-01-29.
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Bibliography
- Marins Cap-Horniers du Nitrate (preface by Francis Roger), Books on Demand, 2014
- M. Barbance, Commercial Life of the Cape Horn Route in the XIX Century century . Armament A.-D. Bordes et fils, Editions of the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, January 1969, ISBN 2-7132-0089-X, 978-2-7132-0089-2
- " The epic of the great Cape Horners of Dunkirk », Dunkirk magazine, n 184, April 2008, p. 27 à 30
- Henri Queffélec, These are sailboats that the wind carries away, the life of Antoine-Dominique Bordes, Presses de la Cité, 1984
- Robert Chevet, A Bordeaux deckchair, the adventure of Henri Bordes, Itarkeo editions, 2017
- Louis Lacroix, The Last French Cap-Horniers, Maritime and Overseas Editions, January 1, 1968