Fraissinet (Shipping company, France)

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History of Fraissinet

The Compagnie Fraissinet was founded in January 1836 in Marseilles by Marc Fraissinet, the son of a Protestant merchant from Languedoc. Following a historical tradition dating back to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, another member of the Fraissinet family founded in the same time a company in Rotterdam.
Marc Fraissinet signed a contract with the insurance broker Chancel, from Cette (now written Sète) in Languedoc. Chancel's paddle ship, SS Marseillais, inaugurated the line between Marseilles and Agde. The ship sunk off Agde on 30 March 1837. The shipowner Théron absorbed Chancel's company and appointed Fraissinet as the director of his company.
In 1837, two new ships were built, SS Rhône and SS Hérault. In 1841, Fraissinet bought the company and extended the line to Nice. His project of a line to New York and the Gulf of Mexico, intially supported by the French government, aborted. In 1846, Fraissinet appointed his son Adolphe as deputy-director and extended the lines of the comp