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Mea Culpa -- Mea Maxima Culpa!, Ernest Stevelinck
Mea Culpa -- Mea Maxima Culpa!, Ernest Stevelinck
Accounting Historians Notebook
I have received a copy of a somewhat harsh letter addressed to the editor of The Accounting Historians Notebook, Dale L. Flesher, who might now regret having printed a biographic article about Albert Dupont. Mr. James W. Jones of Baltimore, a very careful reader of The Notebook and a knowledgeable accounting historian, pointed out, quite correctly, that the International Accountants Congress was held in Amsterdam in 1926. Not in 1929 as was erroneously stated in the article.
Albert Dupont 1872-1940: The French Accounting Historian, Ernest Stevelinck
Albert Dupont 1872-1940: The French Accounting Historian, Ernest Stevelinck
Accounting Historians Notebook
To return to the article by Previts and Garner, I want to demystify the "mysterious contributor", Albert Dupont. His father, Louis Dupont, was a wholesaler in textiles. Louis was born in the "Pays d'Auge en Calvados" but he left his native countryside when he was 20 years old, for Rouen, capital of linen. Later he moved to Paris where, in 1850, he founded his own commercial house. In 1857, Louis Dupont married Miss Chocquet, the daughter of Alphonse Chocquet, director at the "Poste de la Seine", whose father had been himself chief of the "Service des Postes pour l'Etranger" during …