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by Ivan Sache
Last modified: 2005-04-09 by ivan sache
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The Société Phocéenne de Navigation Altaras, Caune & Cie was founded in 1856 by members of the families Altaras and Caune, who were involved
in production and commerce of soap - the famous savon de Marseille.
The company was later renamed Cie Altaras-Cohen and eventually Cie
Altaras et Neveu.
The company operated a bimonthly service to Messina (Sicily), Smyrna
(now Izmir, in Turkey) and Constantinople (now Istanbul), later extended
to Rhodes, Mersin (Turkey) and Beirut. Later, a second line was opened
between Marseilles and the Algerian cities of Philippeville (now Skikda)
and Bone (now Annaba).
The company went out off business in 1877.
Source: Paul Bois. Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988), published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence [boi03].
Isaac Jacomo Bartolomeo Altaras (1786-1873) was born in Aleppo (Syria).
He came to Marseilles in 1805 and changed his name into Jacques Isaac
Altaras in 1808.
Altaras traded with Leghorn, Cyprus and Syria and founded at the end of
the Restauration the only French establishment in Calcutta.
Altaras was Vice-President (1835) and later President (1849) of the Jewish Consistory in Marseilles. He was one of the main funders of the synagogue built rue de Breteuil in 1864, giving a grant of 5,000 francs.
Source: Pierre Guiral & Félix Reynaud (Eds.). Les Marseillais dans l'histoire, Privat (Toulouse, 1988)
Ivan Sache, 25 January 2005
The house flag of Altaras, Caune & Cie is yellow with a brown animal in the middle. On the source quoted below, the animal looks more or less like a lion, but could have been a horse, too. Therefore, the image shown on the top of this page is only tentative.
Source: Paul Bois. Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988), published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence [boi03].
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2004