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Charles Joseph Pigeon
Born Le Mesnil-Lieubray (Normandy) 1838, Died Paris 1915.
Only son of Pierre and Sophie Pigeon (married in 1825),
Charles-Joseph worked as a salesman at the Bon-Marché where he became
friends with Erenest Cognacq, the future developer of La Samaritaine.
He opened a business that sold, repaired, and maintained
light fixtures at 33 rue de Cherce-Midi in Paris.
Gradually his studio began transforming lamps to work
with fuel around 1875.
His curiosity for using mineral spirits produced his
first tubular lamp in cast iron under his name two years later.
Eight million of these non-explosive lamps were produced
at the new factory on rue Montgolfier in 1902 (3rd
arrondissement, close to les Halles).
Charles Pigeon ordered a tomb for 18 members of the
family built in 1905.
He inaugurated the next factory, 2 rue Claude Vellefaux
(10th arrondissement) the following year which produced
500,000 examples a year.
His wife died March 9, 1909, and his son, George in 1910.
Charles Pigeon died at his home, 54 rue de Rennes in
Paris on March 18, 1915.
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May 2008