Etienne Mimard
Etienne Mimard (1862-1944), arms manufacturer originating in Direction, founded with another arms manufacturer, Pierre Blachon, the French Manufacture of Weapons and Cycles of Saint-Etienne, become Manufrance in 1947. Mimard directed the company of 1885 (creation) to its death in 1944.
A few years after the resumption of the company Martinier-Hake, Mimard and Blachon settled in the site built Fauriel course as from 1892 by the Lamaizière architect. The assessment of their innovations is important: they created at the same time a great manufacture, a center of technical innovation, a new system of mail-order selling (the Manufrance catalog which reaches 1 million specimens) and a center of edition ( the French Hunter ).
Anecdotes
The legend tells that Mimard would have been buried upright vis-a-vis its company. He was a contractor emblematic and Ideal-type of the 19th century. Thus, of its office it had an overall picture on the workshops, and had made modify the keyboard of the typewriters of its company, so that the typists trained at his place cannot work elsewhere.
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