arguments they felt likely to be effective in maintaining the price of iron. In 1860 Talabot also became president of a new Association for the Defense of National Labor, which was opposed to lowering of tariffs. Talabot was made a knight of the Legion of Honour. He died on 23 September 1863 in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. Baron Robert de Nervo married Léon Talabot's daughter Lucie-Agathe (1844–73) on 31 October 1867. The Nervo family would make Denain-Anzin the fifth-largest steel producer in France by 1913. Publications Notes Sources 1796 births 1863 deaths 19th-century French businesspeople