Translations:CP 03098/11/en
- ↑ Édouard Delessert (1828-1898), writer and director of various companies, son of Gabriel Delessert, former commissioner of the Paris, Valentine and Laborde police. He was a member then vice-president of the board of directors of the Ouest railway company, and member of the board of directors of the Northern Spain railway company. A member of the Jockey club, he had a reputation for being pleasant and witty. - Robert Dreyfus had identified Édouard Delessert as the author of Sens dessus dessous, an anonymous booklet that Marcel Proust had written an account of in Le Banquet, no. 2, in April 1892 ("Un livre contre l'élégance" [A Book Against Elegance], EA, p. 346-347). [PK, FP]