Maurice-Isidore Leroy.
A discreet hero of
Tintin
?
No, the former great man of Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry, 40 kilometers from Paris.
The businessman was the mayor of this dapper commune of Seine-et-Marne from 1912 to 1929. Above all, he established there the wallpaper company founded a few decades earlier, in Paris, by his grandfather, the inventor of the "
26 color printing machine
".
The construction, just before the First World War, of this ultramodern brick, concrete, steel and millstone factory, led to the industrial takeoff of the city, which had until then lived on the vine.
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In these heyday, the Leroy house, the first in Europe for wallpapers, employed up to 1,000 people.
Then came the oil crisis, international competition ... the decline and closure in 1982. The affair is so old that the city has only a handful of ex-employees of the factory, often in their nineties.
On the other hand, the plant planted on the banks of the Seine, just like
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