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Gaston Gradis (7 May 1889 – 15 January 1968) was a French businessman and explorer. He came from a wealthy family of Bordeaux shipowners. After serving as an artillery captain in World War I, he became the head of various transport and trading businesses. He is known for having undertaken the first crossing of the Sahara by automobile in 1924. ==Early years== Gaston Gradis was born in Paris on 7 May 1889, from an old family of Bordeaux shipowners. His family, which was Jewish, had been granted the right to obtain property in the colonies by Louis XVI. His parents were Raoul Gradis (1861–1943) and Suzanne Fould. His grandfather, Henri Gradis (1823–1905) was a grandson of Laure Sarah Rodrigues-Henriques. He was a nephew of Georges Schwob d'Héricourt (1864–1942) and cousin of Germaine de Rothschild (1884–975), wife of Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949). Gradis joined the École Polytechnique in 1910. In 1911 he volunteered for the army, joining the Artillery school in the same year. During World War I (1914–1918) he was made a lieutenant in 1914 and an artillery captain in 1917. For his actions in the war he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour and received the Croix de guerre and five citations. Gradis became president of Nieuport, the Compagnie générale transsaharienne and the Brasseries du Maroc. He was a director of Société Française pour le Commerce avec l'Outre-mer, of Maurel & Prom and other companies. In 1918 Gradis married Georgette Deutsch de la Meurthe. Her father, Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe, was the first oil refiner in France first at Nantes and then at Saint-Loubès, with Pétrole Jupiter. Their son, Henri Gradis (born 1920), a corporate director, married Bernadette Servan-Schreiber, sister of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. His second wife was the daughter of General Jean-Léonard Koechlin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaston Gradis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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