Emile Marcesche

Emile Marcesche is a business man, born with Lézigné (Maine-et-Loire) in May 1868 and died in Lorient, Morbihan, in October 1939. It is known to have been the instigator of the first allowance office family.

Biography

He is initially professor of sciences in Anjou.

In 1898, it founds with Lorient a company of import-export. In 1902, it buys a Steamer, Arvor , and sells pit props out of wooden with the Wales from where it imports coal. In 1910, it enters to the chamber of commerce of Lorient of which he will become then the president. It is this year that it buys the property of the Basket with Lanester where it installed modern comfort. It launches out then in trawling to vapor then creates in 1917 the Large Cider-house of Lorient, which becomes then a distilling and a pectinery. It founds also the Banque Populaire morbihannaise. He is president of the chamber of commerce of Lorient and Morbihan of 1920 to 1938.

Moved by the condition by the women, often mothers, who sort coal during the First World War, he convinces the owners morbihannais to create a equalization fund in January 1918: it is the first allowance office family of France.

Source

Yann Lukas, Lanester, history of a city, Palantines Editions, Quimper, 1999.

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