{{Infobox person |name = Joseph Thebaud |image = |caption = |birth_date = 1772 |death_date = {{death year and age|1811|1772}} |employer = French East India Company<br>Thebaud Brothers |website = }} '''Joseph Thebaud''' (1772–1811) was an agent of the French East India Company, and later in about 1792 founded Thebaud Brothers, a commission house in New York City. Founder of the French Benevolent Society of New York.<ref>[https://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Business/Merchant/Thebaud35.html New Amsterdam Merchants], Brooklynn Genealogy</ref>
== History == A nineteenth-century account of his life states that he first settled in Boston, where he stayed for a short time, then moved to New Haven, where he married Marie Therese Felicité Le Breton, a daughter of a gentleman from Martinique. Notable among their children was Edward Thebaud.
Moving again to New York, he set up in business and became one of the leading merchants of the city. He lived at 121 Beekman Street, and had his counting-room opposite, at No. 11. He had a country house on a site where Orchard Street later ran.
Thebaud was an amateur botanist and passionately fond of flowers. His greenhouses were at the time the wonder of the town. He took great pride in showing his flowers. His neighbors were David Dunham, Cornelius Dubois, and the Stuyvesant family. He founded the ''Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance'' (French Benevolent Society of New York), and was a leading director and friend to the old Mechanics' Bank.
== Family == He is the ancestor of Vice Admiral François Picard-Destelan, Vice Admiral Leo Hewlett Thebaud, Rear Admiral Cynthia McCulley Thebaud, former president of the International Monetary Fund Jacques de Larosière, and French journalist Laurence de Cambronne.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
<gallery mode="packed"> Leo Hewlett Thebaud, ONI.jpg|Leo Hewlett Thebaud Jacques de La Rosière.jpg|Jacques de Larosière U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Cynthia Thebaud, the commander of Logistics Group Western Pacific and the Task Force 73 Singapore area coordinator, speaks with Brunei Royal Navy Fleet Adm. Abdul Aziz, not shown, with Joint 131114-N-LO372-384.jpg|Cindy Thebaud </gallery>
== See also == *Peter Claver Building *French Hospital (Manhattan) *Leonis C. Malburg
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== Sources == *{{Cite book | publisher = Carlton | last = Scoville | first = Joseph Alfred | title = The Old Merchants of New York City | location = New York | accessdate = 2008-08-20 | year = 1863 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=thIwAAAAIAAJ }}
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