'We are all descended from a king and a hanged man' – Jean de La Bruyère.
'To forget your ancestors is to be a stream without a source, a tree without roots' – Chinese proverb.
'The living cannot teach the dead anything ; the dead, on the contrary, instruct the living' – Chateaubriand
'Those who do not forget the past are masters of the future' – Sīmǎ Qiān (司馬遷).
The known origin of the Lépissier family is in the Ardennes, in the small village of Villiers-devant-le-Thour (08190) to be more precise.
It is possible to trace the existence of an André Lépissier (or Lépicier or Lépiscier) born around 1630 and died on 27 May 1721 in Villiers-devant-le-Thour..
It has not yet been possible to determine the exact date of the departure of the ancestor Lépissier to Paris. Research is underway.
On the other hand, it is possible to precisely follow the Lépissier line since 1760.
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1- Jean Lépissier (1760-1795)
(Certain information concerning Jean Lépissier must still be considered with caution and require confirmation)
Jean was born in 1760 during the reign of Louis XV. He was a Master Tailor, a draper's merchant in Paris, and lived on rue d'Enfer (renamed rue Bleue in February 1789) in Paris IX.
He is, perhaps, the son of a certain Nicolas Lépicier (with a 'c' and not with two 's') born in 1721.
A- He first married Marie Lagalle (widow of Jean-Thomas Nivillière or Nivoillière or Nivoyer, a tailor, with whom she had a boy, Thomas Marcel, born in 1762, and a girl Marie Olive who married Prudent Labergerie).
Jean Lépissier (or Lépicier) has two children with Marie Lagalle (or La Galle) :
1- Jean-Thomas Lépissier, born in 1770 and died on 19 March 1810 at 26 rue de la Limace in Paris.
Jean-Thomas, a tailor by trade, married Marie Anne Billau on 30 Messidor Year VII (18 July 1799) in Paris, with whom he had a son Prudent François Lépissier, born on 29 July 1801 in Paris.
1.1 - On 25 November 1828, Prudent François Lépissier married Marie Thérèse Varnerot at St-Nicolas-des-Champs in Paris. On 11 October 1831, they had a daughter, Sophie Hélène, and two sons, Edouard Fortuné, born on 22 June 1833, and Henry, born on 31 August 1843.
1.1.1 - On 23 July 1853, Sophie Hélène Lépissier married Alfred Louis Thiry (1831-1894), a copper founder, in Paris. Sophie Hélène died on 2 February 1915 in Paris.
1.1.2 - Edouard Fortuné married Elisabeth Sophie Léonie Martin and they had at least one son, Émile Fortuné, born on 5 October 1860 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
1.1.3 - On 23 May 1874, Henry Lépissier married Elisabeth Antoinette Rivière (22 May 1853 - 22 July 1905) in Paris, with whom he had a daughter Blanche Thérèse Lépissier, born on 9 December 1876 in Paris.
1.1.3.1 - On 28 July 1904, Blanche Thérèse Lépissier married Auguste Mailhol (1877-1941) in Paris, with whom she had two children: Armand Henri (1905-1972) and Auguste (1906-1997). Blanche Thérèse died on 3 March 1909.
2 - Marie Françoise Séverine Lépissier, born in 1778 and died on 10 December 1782.
His first wife, Marie Lagalle, died on 1 (or 6, according to some sources) March 1781 in Paris.
B - Jean Lépissier married, in second marriage, in 1785 in the church of Saint Séverin in Paris, Marguerite Petitjean with whom he has (at least) two children :
- Jean-Nicolas Lépissier born in 1794. He was baptized on 8 June 1795 at the Oratoire de l'Instruction in the faubourg Saint-Germain à Paris.
- Jean-Marie Lépicier was baptised on 16 August 1797 at the Oratoire de l'Instruction on the Faubourg Saint-Germain in Paris.
Jean died in Paris in 1795, at the age of 35. His son Jean-Nicolas is one year old.
2- Jean-Nicolas Lépissier (1794- ?)
Jean-Nicolas was born on 6 October 1794 (or at the time, on 15 Vendémiaire year III, according to the Revolutionary calendar), in rue Bleue in Paris. He was baptised on 8 June 1795 at the Oratoire de l'Instruction, Faubourg Saint-Germain.
Jean-Nicolas was a grocer at 188 rue Saint Antoine in Paris. At the age of 27, on 3 August 1822, he married Angélique Sophie (known as Sophie) Sixdeniers, born in 1793 in Melun, in the parish of Saint Jacques du Haut Pas (Paris Vème) and at the Mairie du XIIème in Paris.
Sophie is the daughter of Jean-Baptiste Sixdeniers (1758-1823) an engraver in intaglio, and Marie-Madeleine Chesnant (1759-1823). Her younger brother, Alexandre-Vincent Sixdeniers was an engraver of history in intaglio. He was very successful and won several prizes.
They will have a son, Émile-Jean Lépissier, born in 1826.
Jean-Nicolas died on 23 February 1859 at Le Mée-sur-Seine (Seine-et-Marne). Angélique-Sophie died on 30 March 1872.
3- Émile-Jean Lépissier (1826-1874)
Émile-Jean Lépissier was born on December 6, 1826, under the reign of Charles X, at 188 rue Saint Antoine in Paris.
Émile-Jean is assistant astronomer to Urbain Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory.
Émile-Jean married on 30 September 1852, Marie-Augustine (known as Maria) Boissard (27 September 1828 - 4 February 1887), daughter of Rosalie Lomon and Jean-Pierre Boissard, with whom he had four children :
- Émile-Laurent born on 25 February 1850 - See § 4 below
- Juliette-Alphonsine (born 12 June 1851, rue de l'Ouest, Paris - 10 March 1853)
- Juliette-Lise born on 6 June 1855 in Paris. Juliette-Lise married Émile Vanderlieb, born in Strasbourg on 15 July 1855, on 22 January 1881 in Paris VIe, with whom she had five children: Émile-Félix born on 2 December 1881 in Paris IIe and died on 20 December 1881, Jeanne-Juliette born on 10 August 1883 in Paris IIe and died on 23 November 1965, Amélie Catherine born on 19 May 1887 and died on 28 July 1977, Émile-Georges born on 27 January 1890 in Noisy-le- Sec and died on 13 January 1891, and Émile-Jean born on 20 April 1892 in Franconville and died on 30 July 1947 in Shànghǎi. The latter spent his career in China from August 1920 to July 1947.
- Paul François (28 June 1860 - 24 September , 1861)
The biography of Émile-Jean Lépissier is one of the topic of this site (see 'Key players in China' tab) .
He was the first Lépissier to go to China in 1866.
Émile-Jean Lépissier died on 21 Octobre 1874 in Paris.
4- Émile-Laurent Lépissier (1850-1925)
Émile-Laurent was born on 24 February 1850, at 17 rue Saint Sébastien in Paris XI, under the presidency of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.
With his mother Maria and his sister Juliette, he left France in August 1867 to join his father in Peking.
He joined the Chinese 'Imperial Maritime Customs Service' (IMCS), in June 1869.
The biography of Laurent Lépissier is one of the topic of this site (see 'Key players in China' tab) .
Laurent, first, had a child with a Chinese woman, Thomas-Simon who was born on 27 January, 1877 in Zhènjiāng. Thomas-Simon took the surname Lee (Anglicized form of Li, the surname Lépissier in Chinese). Thomas-Simon died on 18 December 1939 in Hong Kong, where he was buried.
On 12 February 1881, Laurent married Blanche Eugénie Berthoin (born 9 February 1863 in Grenoble, died 23 September 1951), daughter of Pierre Hippolyte Berthoin (1833-1908) and Eugénie Henriette (known as "Tamé") Marquis (1832-1908).
Laurent died on 10 December 1925 at his property "Petit Séjour" in Saint-Jean-de-Braye in the Loiret. Laurent, Blanche and Eugénie are buried in Loury (45470).
Laurent and Blanche will have five children :
- Charles born on 23 May 1882 in Guǎngzhōu (see § 5 below)
- Paul born on 17 January 1884 in Guǎngzhōu. The biography of Paul Lépissier is also one of the topic of this site (see 'Paul Lépissier' tab).
- Claire born on 1 October 1885 in Shànghǎi. She married quite late, on 28 August 1930, Fernand Benoist, sub-prefect and secretary general of the Loiret prefecture. This couple has no children. Claire died on 14 September 1956 at the age of 71. Claire and Fernand are buried in Loury (45470).
- Henri born on 18 December 1891 in Shànghǎi. Graduated from H.E.C. in 1911, he joined Banque de l'Indochine. Henri, was mobilized as a sergeant of the 18th regiment of Dragons, and died in action on 7 August 1914 in Pfetterhausen, near Belfort, on the third day of the war. Henri is buried in Loury (45470)
- Émile Lépissier born on 26 June 1900 in Shànghǎi. He joined Crédit Foncier de France on 1 June 1930. Émile married on 7 October 1930, Simonne Bonlieu (born on 23 August 1907 and died on 3 February 1997) with whom he had six children (See tab 'The descendants of Émile Lépissier'). Émile died on 27 October 1969. Émile and Simonne are buried in Loury (45470).
Émile-Laurent died on 10 December 1925.
Only his children Charles and Émile have descendants.
5- Charles Lépissier (1882-1975)
Charles Lépissier was born on May 23,1882 in Guǎngzhōu.
Charles will make his entire professional career as French consul in China
The biography of Charles Lépissier is one of the topic of this site (see 'Key players in China' tab) .
Charles married on 16 February 1920 Madeleine Gerber (14 July 1891 in Batignolles - 7 August 7 in Versailles) daughter of Marie-Félicie 'Célina' Delahaye (1861-1943), owner and director of a private school and Eugène Gerber (1857-1940), painter.
Charles and Madeleine have four children (See tab 'The descendants of Charles Lépissier').
- Henri, was born on 6 April 1921 in Hā'ĕrbīn, Manchuria and died on 27 October 2010 in Rambouillet.
- Geneviève, born on 29 January 1923 in Hā'ĕrbīn.
- Jacqueline, was born on 9 August 1925 in Saint-Jean-de-Braye in the Loiret, and died on 31 October 2017 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
- Jean-Marie, born on 3 December 1927 in Yúnnánfu, Yunnan.
Charles died on 28 February 1975 in Versailles.
Charles and Madeleine are buried at Suèvres (41500) in the Loir-et-Cher department
6- Henri Lépissier(1921-2010) - (See tag 'Henri Lépissier')
Henri was born on 6 April 1921 in Hā'ĕrbīn (哈尔滨) in Manchuria. He married Monique Mourier (born 30 July 1923 in Landau, Germany - 3 July 2017 in Châteauneuf-du-Pape) on 30 July 1947 in Versailles.
Monique is the eldest daughter of Marguerite Soulé (21 September 1901 - 22 December 1987), and of general (aviation) Paul Mourier (2 September 1896 - 23 March 1975). She is the granddaughter of general Joseph Mourier (infantry) and general François William Soulé (cavalry).
Henri will spend his entire career in Africa (Chad, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Sénégal) as a veterinarian in tropical medicine.
Monique and Henri have two children :
6.1- Bertrand born in 1948 in Chad. See § 7 below.
6.2- Hervé born on 31 August 1949 in Libourne. Hervé married Arielle Jarniat with whom he has a daughter :
- Amandine born on January 25, 1979 in Marseille.
Hervé died on 23 April 1984.
Then Henri married Jacqueline Delaunay (6 November 1926 - 1 February 2016 in Versailles) :
6.3- Gérard born on 3 July 1957 in Versailles. Gérard married Anne-Florence Thibaud on 4 August 1984, with whom he had three children : Grégoire born in 1987, Alban born in 1989 and Baptiste born in 1994. Gérard died in Rambouillet on November 20, 2010.
Henri died in Rambouillet on 28 October 2010. Henri and Jacqueline are buried in Rambouillet (78120).
7- Bertrand Lépissier (born in 1948)
Bertrand was born on 4 September 1948 in Fort-Lamy [present day N'Djamena] in Chad.
Bertrand's biography is given on this site under the tab 'Bertrand Lépissier'.
Bertrand married Monique Pillard on 12 February 1983 in Port-Moresby, Papua New-Guinea.
Monique Pillard, born on 13 January 1954 in Limoges, is the daughter of Ginette Franclet (2 November 1927 in Pont-à-Mousson - 15 March 1996 in Bordeaux) and of Maurice Pillard (18 June 1926 in Écrouves - 18 August 2001 in Eymet).
Bertrand will be part of the international staff of Banque de l'Indochine, which became Banque Indosuez (then Crédit Agricole Corporate Investment Bank) and will carry out his career from 1974 to 2001 in 10 countries (Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Papua New-Guinea, Yémen, Kenya, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Gibraltar). Back in France, he joined Bred Banque Populaire until his retirement at the end of 2013.
Monique and Bertrand have two children :
7.1- Alice born on 15 September 1987 in Le Chesnay, France. Alice married Max Wojcik, an American, on 11 March 2021 in Santa Barbara, California. Doctor in Environmental Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Bren School of Environmental Science & Management), Alice did a post-doctoral fellowship at Brown University (Ivy League) in Providence, Rhode Island as a researcher in the Climate Solutions Lab.
7.2- Pauline born on 30 September 1989 in Táibĕi (Republic of China). Pauline is a solicitor and partner at Devonshires in London.
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