Jean-Baptiste Pastré (10 October 1804 - 19 August 1877) was a French banker and arms-dealer from Marseille. A merchant banker in Egypt, he founded the Anglo-Egyptian Bank in 1862. He also served on the City Council of Marseille.
Early life Jean-Baptiste Pastré was born on 10 October 1804 in Marseille.GeneaNet: Jean-Baptiste Pastré His father, Jean-François Pastré (1758-1821), was a banker.Michael Stephen Smith, The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006, p. 44 His mother was Marie-Eugénie Gauthier (1776-1862). He had a sister, Amélie Pastré (1800-1880), and three brothers: Jean Joseph Pastré (1801-1861), Eugène Pastré (1806–1868) and Jules Pastré, Prince d'Edde (1810-1902).
Career Pastré became a prominent businessman and banker in Marseille.Dominique Barjot, Les patrons du second Empire: Marseille, Picard, 1999, p. 29 He was also an arms-dealer.Pierre-Paul Zalio, Grandes familles de Marseille au XXe siècle: enquête sur l'identité économique d'un territoire portuaire, Belin, 1999, p. 86 René Burruey, Le port moderne de Marseille: du dock au conteneur, 1844-1974, Chambre de commerce et d'industrie Marseille-Provence, 1994, p. 92 Laurence Lemaire, Les gens de Marseille font le guide, Images en manoeuvres éditions, 2003, p. 30 For example, he sold weapons to the French Army during the Crimean War of 1853–1856.Jules Charles-Roux, Vingt ans de vie publique: Questions municipales.--Travaux divers. Rapports sur délégations en France et à l'étranger. Études économiques et discours parlementaires, Guillaumin, 1892, p. 328 Moreover, in the 1850s, he served on the Boards of Directors of Arnaud Touache et Cie, later known as the Compagnie de navigation mixte, and Messageries Maritimes, both merchant shipping companies.Marie-Françoise Berneron-Couvenhes, Les messageries maritimes: l'essor d'une grande compagnie de navigation française, 1851-1894, Paris: Presses Paris Sorbonne, 2007, p. 75
Thanks to his mother's friendship with Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Pastré went to Egypt to do business at the age of nineteen.Henri-Charles-Ferdinand-Marie-Dieudonné d’Artois, Comte de Chambord, Voyage en Orient: 1861, Editions Tallandier, 1984, p. 363Jean Lambert-Dansette, Histoire de l'entreprise et des chefs d'entreprise en France: Le temps des pionniers (1830-1880) - Des jalons d'existence, Editions L'Harmattan, 2003, Volume 3, p. 6 As a result, he established a financial institution in Egypt as early as 1825.Marseille au XIXème: rêves et triomphes : Musées de Marseille, 16 novembre 1991-15 février 1992, Musées de Marseille, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1991, p. 77 From the 1840s to the 1860s, he was one of the main French merchant bankers investing in Egypt, alongside Delort de Gléon and Edouard Dervieu (1824-1905).Juan Carlos, Martinez Oliva, John Consiglio, Gabriel Tortella, Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean: A Historical Perspective, Ashgate Publishing, 2013, p. 281 In 1862, he founded the Anglo-Egyptian Bank.Michel Lavallois, Sarga Moussa, L'orientalisme des saint-simoniens, Maisonneuve & Larose, 2006, p. 25
Back in Marseille, Pastré served as the first Chairman of the Société Marseillaise de Crédit.Société Marseillaise de Crédit: History Marseille Info He also served as the first Vice President of the Compagnie des Docks et Entrepôts de Marseille, which he co-founded.Dominique Pons, Des docks et des hommes, Images en manoeuvres, 2004 Laurence Américi, Xavier Daumalin, Les dynasties marseillaises: de la Révolution à nos jours, Paris: Perrin, 2010, p. 23 Additionally, he served as a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Marseille from 1836 to 1842, from 1845 to 1849, and as its chairman from 1852 to 1866.Dominique Barjot, Les entrepreneurs du second empire, Presses Paris Sorbonne, 2003, p. 21 Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Marseille, Paris: Le Petit Futé, 2010, p. 244 Xavier Daumalin, Marcel Courdurié, Vapeur et révolution industrielle à Marseille: 1831-1857, Chambre de commerce et d'industrie Marseille-Provence, 1997, p. 136 In this capacity, he described Marseille as the meeting place between the West and the East, with the Mediterranean Sea as the place where peace must be forged.Jean Carpentier, Histoire de la Méditerranée, François Lebrun, Paris: Seuil, 1998, p. 332 He also served as a city councillor of Marseille.François Arnoulé, Christophe Matrat, Jean-Louis Miège, Études d'histoire contemporaine tunisienne (1846-1871), Université de Provence, I.H.P.O.M., 1973, p. 55
Personal life Pastré married Marie-Thérèse Poncet (1821-1879) on 15 February 1841. They had three children: Marie Jeanne Faustine Pastré (1841-1919). Eugénie Pastré (1843-unknown). Rose Pastré (1847-1892).
They resided at 57 Rue Saint-Ferréol in Marseille.Chemin de fer de Marseille à Avignon et Beaucaire: tracé Montricher, adopté par le Conseil général des ponts-et-chaussées. Statuts du 5 février 1842, p. 6
Death Pastré died on 19 August 1877 in Marseille.
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