Jean-Louis Robert Frederic Dumas was a French billionaire businessman who was the chairman of the Hermes group from 1978 to 2006.
14 Facts About Jean-Louis Dumas
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Jean-Louis Robert Frederic Dumas was born in Paris, France, on 2 February 1938.
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Jean-Louis Dumas's father was Robert Dumas, and his mother was one of Emile-Maurice Hermes' four daughters.
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Jean-Louis Dumas attended the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, dubbed Sciences Po.
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Jean-Louis Dumas traveled in Iran, Afghanistan, and Nepal in a Citroen 2CV.
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In 1963, Jean-Louis Dumas entered Bloomingdale's buyer-trainer program in New York.
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Jean-Louis Dumas later became CEO of the Hermes Group and served as the company's artistic director.
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Jean-Louis Dumas's father died in 1978, and Dumas became chairman.
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Jean Louis-Jean-Louis Dumas retired as the chairman and artistic director of Hermes in January 2006 due to declining health.
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Jean-Louis Dumas was replaced in the position by his son Pierre-Alexis Dumas.
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Jean-Louis Dumas's wife Rena Dumas was a Greek-born architect who founded Rena Dumas Architecture Interieure in 1972 in Paris.
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Pierre-Alexis Jean-Louis Dumas is their son, while their daughter Sandrine is a film actress.
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Jean-Louis Dumas died in Paris on 1 May 2010, at the age of 72.
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Jean-Louis Dumas took photographs throughout his life, and in 2008, Steidl published Jean-Louis Dumas: Photographer, a collection of his photographs.