Paul Octave Ristelhueber (July 19, 1849 – March 12, 1925,[1] known in Chinese sources as 林椿) was a French diplomat stationed in Qing China. He served as the French consul in Fuzhou (1877-80),[2] Guangzhou (1883-84)[2] and Tianjin Concession (1884-91).
Over his tenure in Tianjin, he oversaw the construction of telegraph linking Tianjin and French Indochina in 1889.[3] In 1905,[1] he became the Director of the Societe Francaise de Construction et D'exploitation de Chemins de Fer en Chine Ligne du Chan-si, the company that oversaw the construction of Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan railway in Qing China.[4] Besides, he was the Director of Russo-Chinese Bank in Paris.[5]
Family
editRistelhueber was born in Guadeloupe, the French West Indies and died in Paris. He married Marie Anne Dannet and had two sons, of which Jean René Marie Ristelhueber became a French diplomat, stationing in Beirut (1908) and in Tunis (1924-28).[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Établissements Lucien Delignon, Quinhon" (PDF). www.entreprises-coloniales.fr. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-08. Page 5 of pdf.
- ^ a b "La consule générale". French consulate general in Guangzhou's official website. 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-05-08.
- ^ Claeys, Thierry; Wen, Wen (2018). "Origines et motivations au sujet de la construction d'un réseau télégraphique reliant l'Indochine à la Chine à partir de 1889". Revue française d'histoire économique. 9–10 (1–2). doi:10.3917/rfhe.009.0254.
- ^ Laboulaye, Édouard de (1911). Les chemins de fer de Chineby. Paris: Emile Larose. p. 8.
{{cite book}}: Check|archiveurl=value (help) - ^ Claeys, Thierry; Wen, Wen (2020). "Autour de la genèse de la Banque Russo-Chinoise : les ambitions contradictoires d'une alliance franco-russe". Revue française d'histoire économique. 14 (2). doi:10.3917/rfhe.014.0050.