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Jan 2 — 07:30 PM

It was January 2nd: Napoleon made beet sugar a national treasure

On January 2, 1812, Napoleon I visited Passy, on the outskirts of Paris, to tour Benjamin Delessert's experimental sugar refinery. Impressed by the results, the emperor immediately awarded the industrialist the Legion of Honor, symbolically endorsing the birth of a strategic industry: sugar production from beets. This gesture…

Events ECONOMY BY Alice Leroy

Jan 1 — 13:06 PM

Legion of Honour: Boualem Sansal decorated. Discover the other distinguished personalities honored on January 1, 2026

Political figures PEOPLE BY Jerome Goulon