Back to search results

Roux House collection

Enlarge text Shrink text
Roux House (Creator of the collection)
  • Archive

The collection includes mainly commercial correspondence (62 letters), between the house of the brothers Jean Baptiste Honorè Roux and Pierre Honorè Roux in Marseille and Jewish merchants in Livorno, Ancona, Venice. To this items were added 6 letters between others merchants in Turkey and 67 cheques and money transfers from Jewish merchants in Europe (some of this to the Roux House).

Reference Code
ARC. 4* 1622
Dates
1734-1790
Consists of
0.2 m..
Languages
French; ita; Spanish ; gre;
location
  • The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel
Title Roux House collection.
Additional Titles כותרת בעברית: אוסף חברת רו.
Collection of Roux House.
Mercantile letters Collection.
אוסף מכתבים מסחריים.
Notes Former nome of the collection in the National Library: Mercantile letters collection
in hebrew: מכתבים מסחריים
The archive of the Roux House is located in the Department of Cultural Heritage, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Marseille: L 09 « Fonds Roux », 1728-1843 : archives de négociants, affaires maritimes et commerciales (L 09-06). Includes correspondence and many tens of thousand of documents. http://www.culture.gouv.fr/mpe/carto/fiches/204.htm
Copies/עותקים: There are Xerox copies of 52 letters (see in the files records).
Citation Note ARC. 4* 1622, Roux House Archive, Archives Department, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
Host Item Roux House collection
Level of Description Fonds Record
Copies There are Xerox copies of 52 letters (see in the files records).
Biographical summary The Roux House, a merchant house of Marseilles, was founded in 1728, as continuation of the firm of Jean-Baptiste Bruny, related to the Roux family. The firm was known as Pierre-Honorè Roux merchant house and after 1757 as Pierre-Honorè Roux et fils, until 1843. One of the preeminent trading houses in the Mediterranean. It was a worldwide and highly varied firm, interested in every business and trade function, from goods and stuffs to consignment and commission to insurance, to preciuos metals and banking. The house had associations with the Levant and with the Americas as well and a full complememt of correspondents in London, Amsterdam and Italy. Among them were Jewish merchants.
Ownership history 52 letters to the Roux House were purchased from the antiquarian Gilbert Bennett, Los Angeles, in 1985. The more items were added from the Nehemya Allony collection of manuscripts (original number: 435).
Language Note The documents are in italian and french, one letter in spanish and two in greek.
National Library system number 990027150520205171

תנאי השימוש:

Appropriate Conditions of Use Have Been Established for Every Archive File

The terms of use appear on the archival file page on the National Library website.

For more information about the copyright status inquiry service and terms of use for items from the Library’s collections, click here.

MARC RECORDS
Tags

Have more information? Found a mistake?

This may also interest you

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

While we all sit, as we do every year, at the Seder table, while we sing, ask questions, read the Haggadah and enjoy the holiday meal, hundreds of families among us will not be able to do this. Their holiday spirit, their joy, their loved ones were taken from them.  Their loved ones were kidna

To the article on our blog
Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

As opposed to the Passover Haggadah, the Jewish Midrash tells us of the significant role played by Miriam the Prophetess in the Exodus from Egypt. Every Passover we are told of the Children of Israel’s journey from slavery to freedom, but it often goes unmentioned that Miriam the Prophetess, sister

To the article on our blog
World War II

World War II

World War II was the most destructive and deadly war in human history. The war officially began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Although the invasion of Poland is commonly seen as the first act of war, Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria and its occupation of Czechoslovakia i

More on this subject