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Only two other men not of Du Pont blood and name have held that job since 1802, when Eleuthèree Irénée du Pont founded the company...
...Brandywine's Banks. Eleuthèree Irénée du Pont de Nemours was a young Frenchman* who had studied gunpowder-making under France's great chemist Lavoisier, had become inspector general of commerce under King Louis XVI. When revolutionary mobs stormed the Tuileries in 1791, Irénée and Papa Pierre led 60 volunteers who defended the King until only they and six others were left alive. They escaped, later sailed to the U.S. There, young Irénée, amazed at the high price and low quality of gunpowder, raised...
Brooklyn (Ree) 3, New York...