Benjamin Delessert
Delessert (Benjamin): Benjamin Delessert is a French industrialist and financier (Lyon 1773 - Paris 1847). Having created a sugar refinery in 1801 in the district of Passy, in Paris, he definitively developed, in 1812, the process for extracting beet sugar. Napoleon III (*), who came in person to visit the installation , understood the importance of a discovery which reinforced the Continental Blockade, prohibiting the English from trading ...
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