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Charles Pathé

1863 - 1957

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Charles Morand Pathé (French: [pate]; 26 December 1863 – 25 December 1957) was a pioneer of the French film and recording industries. As the founder of Pathé Frères, its roots lie in 1896 Paris, France, when Pathé and his brothers pioneered the development of the moving image. Pathé adopted the national emblem of France, the cockerel, as the trademark for his company. The firm, as Compagnie Générale des Éstablissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes, invented the cinema newsreel with Pathé-Journal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Pathé is the 375th most popular businessperson (down from 291st in 2019), the 3,312th most popular biography from France (down from 2,821st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Charles Pathé ranks 375 out of 847Before him are Toto Wolff, Arthur Guinness, Viktor Vekselberg, Erin Brockovich, Jorge Mendes, and Theo Albrecht. After him are Gennady Timchenko, Johanna Quandt, Arnold Rothstein, Dieter Zetsche, Akio Toyoda, and Henry E. Steinway.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Charles Pathé ranks 89Before him are Princess Isabella of Bavaria, Augusto B. Leguía, Ioannis Frangoudis, Francis Younghusband, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, and Géza Gárdonyi. After him are Charles Martin Hall, Edith Durham, Lyubomir Miletich, Władysław Horodecki, Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, and Herbert James Draper. Among people deceased in 1957, Charles Pathé ranks 122Before him are Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Avetik Isahakyan, Paja Jovanović, Josephine Hull, and Oldřich Duras. After him are Georges Hébert, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Abolqasem Lahouti, Viggo Larsen, Othmar Schoeck, and Joseph Canteloube.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Pathé ranks 3,312 out of 6,770Before him are Edmond Audran (1840), Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770), Claude Allègre (1937), Théophraste Renaudot (1586), André Clot (1909), and Vincent Voiture (1597). After him are Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Georges Rayet (1839), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Maxime Rodinson (1915), Sébastien Faure (1858), and René Huyghe (1906).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In France

Among businesspeople born in France, Charles Pathé ranks 23Before him are Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), Guy de Rothschild (1909), François Coty (1874), Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798), Louis Réard (1897), and Albert Kahn (1860). After him are Thierry Breton (1955), Elisabeth Abegg (1882), Christophe de Margerie (1951), Frédéric Vasseur (1968), Gaston Gallimard (1881), and Eugène Lanti (1879).