Memoirs of Sir Edward Blount KCB Etc
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- Author(s) Reid, Stuart J (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1902
- Pages 2nd ed; 308pp; illus
- Publisher Longmans Green
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Autobiography with much about his business career especially as a Paris-based financier of railway construction, notably of the Paris & Rouen Railway and of contractors such as Thomas Brassey. Chapters include: 'Early years'; 'Attaché in Rome and Paris'; 'The beginnings of French railways'; 'My railway career in France'; 'Business friendships'; 'My experiences in the Revolution of 1848'; 'Early days of the Second Empire'; 'The Franco-German War and the Siege of Paris'; 'Consul in Paris in the closing days of the Siege'; 'The turf, club life and social recollections'; 'Backward glances'