Abstract
Abstract Jean-Baptiste Mollerat (1772-1855), from Burgundy, born in a family of ironmasters, illustrates the activity of a learned entrepreneur in the birth of the chemical industry at the beginning of the XlXth century. Originally, his research on the distillation of wood was mostly conceived to find a solution to the ever-increasing price of this fuel for the metalurgical industry. But the main success of this process was related to the exploitation of other products of distillation, indispensable to the textile industry in particular. The construction of a factory at Pouilly-sur-Saône in 1809 met this objective. In the creation of this business, what was the importance of personnal innovation compared to the influence of the family ? What was the extent of his strategy within the national market and the weight of regional constraints ?
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