Joseph Alexandre Feige

Alexandre Feige, son of a farmer Combloux, circa 1895

Details - Birth certificate in Combloux

The pendulum, named Feige inside

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Alexandre Feige was born in Combloux (Savoie) in 1839, son of Jean-Michel Feige, plower, and Marie Jacquet Clerc, married three times and had 12 children. 
His godfathers were called Charles Joseph and Marie-Thérèse Lord, a farmer
As in many mountain countries (cf. the story of Louis Rougier), the eldest son, François Feige, emigrated to Paris, became a craftsman, manufacturer and merchant of shirts. He brought all his brothers and sisters to Paris; including Alexander, who worked in his brother's shirt shop (such as Jean Feige, "blouse cutter", and Marc Feige, "blouse maker").
Marc Feige had a son Charles who had remained in contact with the Cordelle. Mrs. Charles Feige lived in Précy-sur-Oise in 1941. She had a daughter Suzanne (1907-1939).

Alexandre married the Parisian on 14 January 1870 (in Paris?) Léonie TourteThey lived in Paris and Sèvres, where Alexander died in 1896.
We kept a pendulum - terminal (with Lenoir movement of the 18th^nd with the name of Mr. Feige.  
Here are the 5 children of Alexandre Feige and Léonie Tourte

• Henri 1871 - 1889, the eldest, died at 18 years of heart disease
• Mary 1876 - 1877, dead in the low-age of the croup (diphtheria)
• Marie-Helen 1878 - 1971, Good mom., Yves' grandmother
• Andre 1881 - 1914, a chemist engineer, he lived in Portugal, who died for France on 6 August 1914 in Saint Mihiel, at the beginning of the Great War. His sister Helen was very attached to him.
• Therese, born on 20 January 1884 in Sèvres, died in 1972,TateA great-aunt of Yves.
  Married first on 1st^ir February 1905 at Georges Bidel (1874 - 1909), a Norman, polytechnician, mining engineer, killed by a stone fall in the Bruay mine in 1909. Georges Bidel was promoting Yves' grandfather Louis Cordelle, Hélène Feige's husband, and close to a friend of Louis Cordelle: Mr. Lion, who was at the Northern Railways, and father of René Lion, retired doctor at the Brulat du Castellet, and Maurice Lion, mysteriously killed during the war of 39 - 45.
  Therese and Georges Bidel had two children: Yvonne (wife Liebaut, mother of Jean-François and Jean-Yves) and Gillette (wife Jenny, mother of 7).

After George's death, Thérèse remarried in 1919 with Pierre Dupuis (Family friend, who fought the war of 14 - 18) They had two children:

• Antoinette, wife Margottat, 4 children and many little children
• Jean Dupuis, 4 children and many little children

Pierre Dupuis, cashier at the bank of France, died in 1943. They lived 2 avenue Dode de la Brunerie, near the apartment of the 6 where lived Good Mom (Hélène Feige - Cordelle))They often went on vacation in Coutainville, near Coutances (a habit that probably came from Georges Bidel, Norman).  
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