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Octave Homberg , born the in Paris and died in Cannes the , is a French diplomat, financial and historian.

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Son of Octave Homberg (1844-1907) and Marie-Thérèse Rend (1851-1876), granddaughter of Ambroise rend, Octave Homberg is licensed in letters and law, associate of philosophy and is received the at the Quai d’Orsay competition. He is attached, then secretary of embassy successively in The Hague (second conference of The Hague), in Munich and Berlin. He was then sent on a mission to Constantinople to investigate the ambassador Ernest Constans.

He became a member of the cabinets of successive foreign ministers (Théophile Delcassé, Maurice Rouvier, Léon Bourgeois, Stephen Pichon).

In 1907, following the death of his father, he succeeded him as secretary general and administrator of the Banque de l’Indochina.

He sets up the editing of the Franco-Ethiopian railway company, of which he became the managing director.

He left the Banque de l’Indochina in 1909 to become vice-president and managing director of the Banque de l’Union Parisienne. He caused his brother-in-law to be appointed by Alliance, René Thion de la Chaume, to take it in the Banque de l’Indochina.

Main collaborator of the Minister of Finance Alexandre Ribot in 1914, Homberg played an important role during the war by presiding the foreign exchange committee, by directing the interallied financial agreements and by negotiating French loans in London and New York. In the United States, he led negotiations on the French side, with Ernest Mallet. It remains in the American city in order to set up the French government’s financial agency in the United States, aimed at rationalizing goods purchases and facilitating the granting of credits in foreign currency to French nationals [ first ] .

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He returned to the board of directors of the Banque de l’Indochina after the war and created the French and colonial financial company (SFFC) in 1920, then, with the support of the Indochina Bank, Crédit Foncier de l ‘ Indochina in 1923 (of which he took vice-president). Man influences colonies and colonial lobby, head of an important financial empire, he heads the newspaper The colonial and maritime dispatch [ 2 ] , of which he entrusted the editorials to Edmond Giscard d’Estaing until February 1931 [ 3 ] . His successes earned him the nickname of Midas des Colonies . He became a member of the academy of overseas sciences from 1927 [ 4 ] .

However, he was challenged at the head of the French and colonial financial company (SFFC) [ 3 ] , that he must abandon shortly before the great international colonial exhibition which takes place in Paris from May 6 to , at the Golden Door and on the Bois de Vincennes site. But if the control of the SFFC then escapes him, “She does not completely leave the fold of the Homberg family” : his brother-in-law René Thion de la Chaume is indeed at the head of the Bank of Indochina, who then controls the SFFC [ 3 ] .

Homberg was, among other things also president of the Compagnie des Eaux et de l’Electricité de l’Indochine, the Indochinese Electricity Company, the Franco-Serb Society for Industrial Enterprises and Public Works, the bank of the Union of Moscow, Crédit Foncier Egyptien, Crédit Foncier Argentin, the Société des Rubbacs de l’Indochine, the Chalaring and Towing Society of Indochina, the Central Electric Energy Company, vice-president of The Franco-Serbian bank, administrator of the General Company of Morocco, the Franco-Belgian company of railway equipment, Crédit Foncier from Far East, the French company of dragage and public works companies, of the central company for the electrical industry.

Withdrawn in his villa in Cannes, he failed in the second round of the 1928 legislative elections as a candidate of the right, with 4,691 votes against 6,331 for André Capron.

Octave was a large collector and published many works.

He was made commander of the Legion of Honor.

The , he married in the first wedding, in Paris, Louise Mahot de la Quérannais (1880-1907), daughter of an important Parisian notary, granddaughter of Jean-François Mocquard and sister-in-law of René Thion de la Chaume. Widower, he married in second marriage, the , Jeanne Bourdeau (1884-1946), daughter of Jean Bourdeau and president-founder of the Société des Études Mozartiennes.

  • “The military career of the knight of Eon: according to unpublished documents”, 1900
  • “An adventurer at XVIII It is century, the knight of Eon (1728-1810), according to unpublished documents ”, 1904 (with Fernand Jousselin)
  • “The wife of the Grand Condé, Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, Princess of Condé”, 1905 (with Fernand Jousselin)
  • « D’Eon de Beaumont. his life and times; compiled chiefly from un », 1911
  • “What’s going on and what is being prepared in China”, 1925
  • “The financier in the city”, 1926
  • “The great injustice (the question of interallied debts)”, 1926
  • “Stabilization: the problem in its essence and its opportunity”, 1926 (with Charles Rist)
  • “Politics and finance”, 1926
  • “Can we ratify the agreements on interallied debts?” », 1926
  • “France of the five parts of the world”, 1927, Hélène Porgès Prize of the French Academy in 1928
  • “Presentation on the situation of the rubber market”, 1927
  • “The illusory wealth”, 1927
  • “The Sahara of yesterday and tomorrow. The caravan with green spurs: Mission Algiers-Niger ”, 1927
  • “What must be the native policy of France in its various colonies?” », 1927
  • “The public finances of France”, 1927
  • “The school of the colonies”, 1929
  • “American imperialism”, 1929
  • “The global rubber market”, 1929
  • “Haras of Saint-Martin-du-Chêne”, 1929
  • “The reverse of the decor: the crisis of colonial products”, 1930
  • “S.O.S: test of synthesis and exploitation of the crisis”, 1932
  • “Avignon, papal city”, 1938 (Edition Honoré Champion, Paris)
  • “La Galerie des Glaces”, 1935 (Academy Prize – 1936) [ 5 ]
  • “Rome of yesteryear, today and forever”, 1935
  • “Roman water”, 1936 (illustrations by Albert Decaris)
  • “A relic of Sainte-Hélène: César and Napoleon”, 1936
  • “Behind the scenes of history: Souvenirs, 1898-1928”, 1938
  • “West Africa”
  • “A practical means of solving the financial problem”
  • “Sicily: the island of the gods”

Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  • Élodie Coutureau, “Octave Homberg (1876-1941): the saga of an adventurer of finance”
  • Anne Mézin, “The Homberg of Le Havre de Grâce”, 2007, L’Harmattan, Paris.
  • Jean-François Konein, “Octave Harberg in 1876-1941, Alain General, Cuvenhot, JaWiers wife livedrippone Wycons, Huggtickners, Jügg Jotte (Dover, I.), Historical dictionary of French bosses , Paris, flammarion, 2010, pp. 369-371.
  • “Men and destinies: Biographical Dictionary of Overseas”, 1975
  • Michèle Merger, “Companies and their networks: men, capital, techniques and powers, 19th-XXth centuries: Mixtures in honor of François Caron”, 1998
  • Patrice Morlat, “Indochina 1920s: the Balcon of France on the Pacific, Volume 1”, 2001
  • Claude Malon, Le Havre Colonial from 1880 to 1960 , Le Havre, University Press of Rouen and Le Havre, 2005
  • Odette Hardy-Hémery, “Power in the company: shareholders and managers in northern companies, 1880-1960”, in Modern & Contemporary History Review 2001/4 (no48-4), pages 77 to 101
  • Jean Garrigues, Alexandre Ribot, from liberal principles to war pragmatism , 2012
  • Jean Garrigues, Bosses and politics , Perrin, 2011

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