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Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain

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Engineer, entrepreneur, financier, industrialist (1852-1929)

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Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain, was a wealthy Walloon Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist. During World War I he became a known major general.

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Commander of the Legion of Honour
Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold
Croix de guerre 1914-1918 (Belgium)
King Albert Medal
1914-1918 Commemorative War Medal
Inter-Allied Victory medal (France)
Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class
Order of the Nile
Knight Commander of the Order of Carlos III
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Croix de guerre 1914-1918

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Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain, was a wealthy Walloon Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist. During World War I he became a known major general. His major claims to fame are being the original winner of the contract to build the Paris Metro, and developing the town of Heliopolis in Cairo.

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Lived 1852 to 1929 · aged 76
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