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Jean Piret

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Jean Piret (died 1680), ironmaster.

This Walloon ironmaster bought the Brückenberg estate at Colmar on the Attert in 1645 and built a blast furnace there. It smelted bog iron ore from the surrounding valleys. The city named this Cloche d'Or street after him in 1985.

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Sources

  1. Les industries de la famille Piret industrie.lu
  2. Jean Piret Wikipedia (Lëtzebuergesch)

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