Fonds Jules Carvallo
Item
Country
FR
Name of institution (English)
Universal Israelite Alliance
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
fra
Contact information: postal address
27 avenue de Ségur, 75007 Paris
Contact information: phone number
0033 0153328855
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
info@aiu.org
Reference number
AP 66
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Jules Carvallo Collection
Title (official language of the state)
Fonds Jules Carvallo
Language of title
fra
Creator / accumulator
Jules Carvallo
Sarah Leibovici
Date note
18th century/19th century
Language(s)
fra
Extent
32 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Jules Carvallo collection comprises six boxes of documents and research notes produced between 1988 and 1990 by the historian Sarah Leibovici with the aim of producing a biography of Jules Carvallo. There is a wide variety of documents, including photocopies of genealogical documents, civil status records, inheritance records, and property transactions, as well as correspondence with town councils or archives concerning records, some of which date back to the 17th century.
Some of these documents specifically refer to Sephardim in France, particularly some comprised in Box E ("Documents d’étude historiques", documents for historical studies), which contains:
E1: "Juifs de Bayonne" (Jews from Bayonne);
E2: "Juifs espagnols et portugais à Bordeaux" (Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Bordeaux);
E3: "Juifs Espagne, Portugal, Maroc" (Jews in Spain, Portugal and Morroco).
Some of these documents specifically refer to Sephardim in France, particularly some comprised in Box E ("Documents d’étude historiques", documents for historical studies), which contains:
E1: "Juifs de Bayonne" (Jews from Bayonne);
E2: "Juifs espagnols et portugais à Bordeaux" (Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Bordeaux);
E3: "Juifs Espagne, Portugal, Maroc" (Jews in Spain, Portugal and Morroco).
Archival history
The collection was brought to the archive after the death of Sarah Leibovici in 1990. Marta Redon Carvallo and Laurence Carvallo Thomas, Jules Carvallo's children, entrusted the elaboration of the inventory to the historian Françoise Chapron, under an agreement with the Alliance Israelite Universelle and at the responsibility of Jean-Claude Kuperminc.
Administrative / Biographical history
Jules Carvallo was one of the founders of the Alliance Universelle in 1860. He was born in Talence (Gironde) on February 6, 1820, to a family of Sephardic origin living in Southwestern France.
Carvallo graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, becoming an engineer. He contributed to the construction of railway networks in France, Italy, and Spain.
Besides participating in the foundation of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, he was also a member of the Consistoire de Paris and co-founder of a newspaper, the Opinion Nationale.
His career faced great challenges when he was implicated in a financial affair involving private railway companies. He was struck off the Public Works Corps in 1865, moving to Tortosa, then Amposta, in the Ebre delta, where he kept working on public construction projects.
He died on December 15, 1916, in Tortosa, and his body was transferred to Amposta in 1932.
Carvallo graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, becoming an engineer. He contributed to the construction of railway networks in France, Italy, and Spain.
Besides participating in the foundation of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, he was also a member of the Consistoire de Paris and co-founder of a newspaper, the Opinion Nationale.
His career faced great challenges when he was implicated in a financial affair involving private railway companies. He was struck off the Public Works Corps in 1865, moving to Tortosa, then Amposta, in the Ebre delta, where he kept working on public construction projects.
He died on December 15, 1916, in Tortosa, and his body was transferred to Amposta in 1932.
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System of arrangement
The collection is organised according to chronology or thematic grouping (D1 to D7). Box D8 contains documents deposited by Marta Redon Carvallo.
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Author of the description
Kevin Soares, 2023
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