Julien Lanoë
Julien Lanoë | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 July 1904 Nantes, France |
| Died | 7 June 1983 Nantes, France |
| Alma mater | Lycée Georges Clemenceau HEC Paris |
| Occupation(s) | Industrialist and man of letters |
Julien Lanoë, born July 7, 1904, in Nantes, where he died June 7, 1983, is a French industrialist and man of letters.[1]
Biography
[edit]Julien Lanoë is the son of Paul Lanoë (1873–1934), industrialist in Nantes and general councilor, the grandson of the mayor of Savenay Julien Lanoë (1841–1919) and senator Henri Guérin, and the nephew of Georges Lanoë-Villène. He attended the Lycée Georges Clemenceau in Nantes, obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1921 and joined the HEC Paris. He married Jacqueline Hamelin, great-granddaughter of Minister Ferdinand Hamelin.[2]
He entered his father's industry as an iron merchant in Nantes in 1923 and succeeded his father at the head of the Huet et Lanoë establishments in 1934. He became president and CEO of the Entrepôts métallurgiques de l'Ouest Lanoë et Adam in 1962.[3]
In 1928, he published a novel with Grasset entitled Vacances, on which Catherine Pozzi published a note in the Nouvelle Revue Française.
He created the literary magazine La Ligne de cœur, active from 1925 to 1928 and from 1933 to 1935.
In 1934, he also succeeded his father as member of the General Council of Loire-Atlantique, for the canton of Rougé.
He was president of the Société des amis du musée des beaux-arts de Nantes from 1936 to 1970.
At the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, he set up exhibitions with the aim of promoting living art, until 1970. Artists from Nantes such as Maxime Maufra, Pierre Roy, Jean Gorin and Camille Bryen are exhibited there, as well as artists living in Nantes such as Paul Deltombe, Michel Noury, Henry Leray or Laure Martin, etc.[4]
A street bears his name in Nantes in the Saint-Joseph de Porterie district.
References
[edit]- ^ Inventaire des manuscrits du fonds Lanoë
- ^ "LANOË Julien | Georges et les autres". www.lyceedenantes.fr. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
- ^ "Julien Lanoë". patrimonia.nantes.fr. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
- ^ "Julien Lanoë, un homme dans la ville | Le Vieux Bahut" (in French). Retrieved 2024-07-22.