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and Pont de
Flandre quarters were occupied by the most fervent partisans of the Commune, and burned down. After the disaster Moranvillé and Lair managed to raise funds to rebuild, which they achieved within two years. In 1873 Moranvillé retired and Lair became director of the company. He would hold
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In 1860, at the age of 25 Lair accepted the job of deputy director of the new
Compagnie des Entrepôts et Magasins généraux de Paris (Paris Warehouse and General Stores Company) under M. Moranvillé, a friend of Boulatignier. The company was formed from assets of the failed Docks Napoléon. Lair was in
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he studied palaeography, and was offered a position with the
Archives, but he decided instead to become a lawyer. At the age of 25 he became director of a warehousing company, and over the next forty years was involved in various major enterprises including the first telephone network in France. At
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Lair bought the
Magasins Généraux d'Auhervilliers et de Saint-Denis, doubling the size of the enterprise. In 1881, after the first telephony experiments, Lair conceived the great project of organizing a telephone network in France. Jules Lair organized the Société générale des Téléphones in 1881,
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collaborated with Lair in manufacturing and distributing telephones. Lair was also interested in underwater telegraphy, and wanted to create a network of submarine cable connecting France to her colonies. The army and navy strongly supported this, but it did not achieve all its goals due to
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Lair was offered a position with the
Archives, but chose to follow a career as a lawyer. He earned a doctorate from the Faculty of Law in Paris in 1859. He enrolled at the Bar of Paris, where he pleaded some cases. During the 1860–61 judicial year he was one of the secretaries of the
299:. He continued to publish diverse works on aspects of the Middle Ages, the Sun King and the French Revolution. He always remained linked to Caen as a member of the Société des Antiquaires de Normandie, while in Paris he was an active member of the Société de l'École des Chartes.
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in the memoirs of the Société des
Antiquaires de Normandie. His long preface tried to establish that Dudo was a reliable historical source, which he was not, and the text has been criticized for careless collation and transcription. However, it has not been superseded.
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to manage large warehouses where goods shipped to
Parisian tradesmen or industrialists by canal or railway could be stored until needed. The concept was good, but bad management, and perhaps dishonesty, caused the company to fail.
287:, and this became an important retreat for Lair whan he could find time away from business. He wrote an engaging history of the village of Bures. While dealing with financiers and competitors, he wrote studies of such people as
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on 25 May 1836. His family was prosperous. His father, a trader in butter, died while he was a child. He studied at the Collège Royal de Caen, where he was a brilliant pupil. He then moved to Paris where he attended the
527:: This involves deciphering old scripts held in the archives, transferring them into modern writing systems, dating the texts, identifying where they were written, cataloguing and annotating them.
136:. He entered the office of SĂ©bastien Joseph Boulatignier, President of the litigation section in the Council of State. He also worked for Antoine Blanche, Advocate General at the
259:. In 1860 he published a History of the Parliament of Normandy from its translation to Caen in June 1589 until its return to Rouen in April 1594. The first volume of his
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charge of litigation. By 1870 the company was well organized, financially secure and doing more business than had been foreseen for the original Docks Napoléon.
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Louise de La Vallière et la jeunesse de Louis XIV, d'après des documents inédits, avec le texte authentique des lettres de la duchesse au maréchal de
Bellefonds
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this position for 33 years. In 1873 he married a Mlle
Dehaussy, from a family that was always interested in intellectual pursuits and particularly the arts.
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about the events of that period, which Lair began publishing from 1872 with the help of Émile
Legrand. Lair's father-in-law had a country house in
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and studied archival palaeography. He entered the École des Chartes in the autumn of 1855, and graduated first in 1858, ahead of Siméon Luce.
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Throughout his business career, Lair always set aside time for historical work. He was particularly interested in the history of his native
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the same time, he always set aside time for historical work, and published many articles and books on aspects of French history from the
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Histoire du Parlement de Normandie depuis sa translation Ă Caen, au mois de juin 1589, jusqu'Ă son retour Ă Rouen, en avril 1594
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Documents inedits sur l'histoire de la revolution francaise. Correspondances de Paris, Vienne, Berlin, Varsovie, Constantinople
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Louise de La Vallière et la jeunesse de Louis XIV d'après des documents inédits
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Essai historique et topographique sur la bataille de Formigny (15 avril 1450)
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Histoire de la seigneurie et de la paroisse de Bures (Seine-et-Oise)
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Les Traditions du diocèse de Bayeux; réponse à M. J. Lair
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President of the Société générale des téléphones, 1881–89
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Vice-President of the Société française des métaux, 1899
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Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1889 à 1940
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228:President of the Société des docks de Rouen, 1902
885:Dudo of St. Quentin; Christiansen, Eric (1998),
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269:De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum
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