Jules Porgès
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Jules Porgès
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Jules Porgès was a Paris-based financier who played a central role in the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa. He was born Yehuda Porges in Vienna and raised in Prague, where his father was a jeweller. He settled in Paris in the early 1860s and established himself as a diamond trader, through his company Jules Porgès & Cie. He recognized early the significance of the diamond finds in South Africa and, in 1873, sent two of his younger staff,
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Austrian-born French diamond and art dealer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Porg%C3%A8s
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2022-10-12T14:19:55Z
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