Maurice Fenaille
Maurice Fenaille (1855 - 1937) was a pioneer of oil industry and a large amateur of Article.
His/her father who had joined in 1853 a trader in greases, joins in 1855 two other people and puts on sale the Saxoléine , petroleum oil intended for lighting. It is the beginning of the oil era.
In 1881, Maurice Fenaille, entered the company a few years earlier, share to work in the United States in the subsidiary company of Fenaille and Despeaux installed with New York. When his/her father dies in 1883, it returns to France and it succeeds to him the head of the company. He adds to Saxoléine, Oléonaphtine and Saxol, two lubricants, as well as the Benzo-engine, gasoline for cars and planes.
The company continues to develop at the same time as the use of oil in the everyday life. The company is famous " Pétroléenne" before taking in 1936 the name of " Standard Frenchwoman of Pétroles" , then, in 1952, of " Esso Standard".
In parallel, Maurice Fenaille travels to England, to Spain, to Palestine, to Italy, to Germany, to Egypt, where it attends the opening of the tomb of Toutânkhamon. He brings back his voyages the last innovations: swimming pools, the electricity domesticates, of the cars and the planes.
Art lover, it devotes most of his time and of his money to an activity of patronage, with the profit of the French Museums but also with the profit of many contemporary artists to which it orders works (Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle, Viala, Jules Chéret…)
He marries in November 1887 Marie Colrat, born and high with the castle of Montrozier, close to Rodez.
In 1903, Maurice Fenaille becomes member of letters, sciences and arts of Aveyron]. But, it also will extend its activity to very varied fields: it creates a school of agriculture, an agricultural center of rehabilitation for disabled ex-serviceman, a sanatorium, a workshop of carpet.
It buys and arranges also the hotel of Jouéry of which it makes gift with the Société of the letters, sciences and arts of Aveyron in 1929. This hotel became, after its death in 1937, a museum which bears its name.
Maurice Fenaille lent, without interests, at the Company of the Friends of Louvre the sum of 150.000 francs for the acquisition of the table of Ingres: the Turkish bath.
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