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Albert Dupont 1872-1940: The French Accounting Historian, Ernest Stevelinck

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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 …