Thierry hermes biography of donald
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Thierry hermes biography of donald
Thierry Hermès
French businessman (1801–1878)
Thierry Hermès (pronounced[tjɛʁiɛʁmɛs]; 10 January 1801 – 10 January 1878) was a French leather-harness maker and fashion designer.
He is the founder of Hermès.[1]
Early life and education
Thierry Hermès was born in 1801 in the city of Krefeld in modern-day Germany, which was at the time part of the Roer department of the French First Republic as a result of the Revolutionary Wars; he was thus born a French citizen.[2] Hermès was the sixth child of an innkeeper and his wife, Agnese Kuhnen.[3] After the death of his parents in 1821, Hermès moved to France as an orphan.[4] He settled in Pont-Audemer and became an apprentice to a local artisan harness-maker.
After moving to Paris, he founded Hermès in 1837, which was originally a horse harness factory located in the Parisian neighborhood known as Grands Boulevards.[5]
Career
In 1837, Thierry Hermès founded the Hermès co