Henri Gradis

Moïse Henri Gradis was born on 30 July 1823 in Bordeaux.[1] He came from a family of prominent Bordeaux merchants who had flourished in the 18th century but were ruined by the French Revolution and the insurrections in Santo Domingo and Martinique.[2] His parents were Benjamin Gradis (1789–1858) and Laure Sarah Rodrigues Henriquès (1803–46). In 1853 he married Claire Brandame (1835–1925). Their son was Raoul Gradis (1861–1943).[1] Their daughter Emma Gradis married Georges Schwob d'Héricourt in 1889.[3]

The Maison Gradis recovered, and by 1892 was selling sugar from several producers in Bordeaux, Nantes and Marseille.[4] Henri Gradis was deputy mayor of Bordeaux in 1864 and 1876.[1] He was also author of a history of Bordeaux and several other literary works.[5] His history of the 1848 revolution won praise for its accuracy and lack of bias.[6] Moïse Henri Gradis died in Paris in 1905.[1] He was succeeded at the Maison Gradis by his son Raoul.[7]

• Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare (translation, 1847)
• Réflexions sur le christianisme, suivies d’une lettre à un jeune Israélite (1847-1850)
• Histoire de la guerre de 1870 (1870)
• Notes sur la guerre de 1870 et sur la Commune (1872)
• Histoire de la révolution de 1848
• Judaïsme et christianisme (1874)
• Notice sur la Famille Gradis et sur la Maison Gradis et Fils de Bordeaux (1875)
• Introduction à l'histoire du peuple d'Israël ; judaïsme et christianisme (1876)
• Polyxène, drame antique en 4 actes et en vers (1881)
• Jérusalem, drame en 5 actes et en vers (1883)
• Histoire de Bordeaux. Bordeaux: Féret. 1901. p. 459. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
• Le peuple d'Israël (Paris, 1891)