N.O. Nelson founded the village of Leclaire in 1890, naming it after Edme-Jean Leclaire, who had inaugurated employee profit sharing in France.
Two sculptures in the garden represent famous personalities of the area : Maria Deraismes, a feminist, and Jean Leclaire, an entrepreneur.
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Her father, the haberdasher Claude-Edme Labille, owned a shop named 'A La Toilette' situated in the Rue neuve des Petits Champs in the parish of Saint-Eustache.
Edme Jeaurat (1688–1738) was a French engraver from Vermenton, near Auxerre.
Edme Quenedey des Ricets (sometimes Edmé Quenedey) (born Riceys-le-Haut, December 17, 1756 - died Paris, February 16, 1830) was a French painter and engraver, known most especially for his miniatures.
He began his career in 1718, purchasing the stock-in-trade and inheriting the clientele of a picture dealer on the Petit Pont, Antoine Dieu Au Grand Monarque, with a modest capital.
Edmé-Louis Daubenton's tombstone is in the church of Saint-Pierre in Avon.
With 4,000 men and 500 horses, Vandermaesen battled Mina's guerillas, capturing his two artillery pieces.
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He took part in the Battle of Wissembourg and in engagements in Haguenau, Vandenheim and Landau.
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The French Army crossed the Rhine again but was soon recalled after peace talks occurred in Leoben.
He maintained correspondence with other horticulturists and naturalists including Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Edme-Louis Daubenton, André Thouin, Jacques Labillardière and others, sending briefs to the Royal Agricultural Society of the Généralité de Paris, which awarded him in 1788 with a gold medal.
Edme-François Gersaint, for whom Watteau painted L'Enseigne de Gersaint as a shop sign had premises, following an old tradition, in a house on the Pont Notre-Dame.