Auguste Hériot
Charles Auguste Hériot is a French business man born with Essoyes (Aube) on March 2nd 1826 and died in Paris on March 28th 1879.
Oldest son of Claude Hériot (1802-1855), merchant of wine, and its wife born Virginia Bertrand. Leaving its native village, it settles in Paris as salesman.
From 1855, it joins Alfred Chauchard, made with the store With the poor devil , and Charles Eugene Faré to rent rez-of roadway of the Hotel of the Louvre, which has just opened its doors Rue of Rivoli, where they create “the Galleries of Louvre”. The buildings are rented with the Real Company of Paris and the Pereire brothers advance funds for the launching of the business. In 1857, Faré is withdrawn, wrongly because the trade does not cease thriving. In 1875, the two associated ones are able to repurchase the whole of the building (which shelters the Louvre of the antique dealers today). After two years of work, they open the Grands Stores of Louvre. The company will disappear only in 1974.
In 1874, Auguste Hériot buys with the Vésinet the Villa Stoltz, which occurred Centrale (current front Georges Clémenceau) (demolished in 1882).
He dies in 1879 without posterity, leaving the three quarters of his fortune to his brother Olympe and the quarter remaining with his mother, who dies a few months later, as well as revenues with his two mistresses in title. He is buried in his birthplace of Essoyes (Aube).
Auguste Hériot was used as model with Emile Zola for the character of Octave Mouret, hero of the novel To the Happiness of the Ladies (1883).
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