Louise Sarazin

She was the wife of Edouard Sarazin, an entrepreneurial Belgian industrialist and patents lawyer who was in a mix of automotive partnerships and agencies with Émile Levassor, René Panhard, John Cockerill, Deutz AG, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach.

In 1884 Sarazin acquired the licence to build Deutz engines in France, which he duly contracted to Perin, Panhard & Cie in Paris.

Around 1886 he similarly acquired licences to build Daimler engines in France and started to commission Panhard & Levassor in Paris.

[5] In 1870, in Paris, she married Edouard Sarazin, a patents lawyer from Liège, Belgium, and they had three children, including a daughter Jeanne in 1878 and a son Auguste Henri born in Asnières-sur-Seine in 1880.

[2][5][3][1]: p.14 Sarazin's deathbed words to his wife were:[4] "In your own interests, and for the good of our children, I recommend that you maintain the business connection with Daimler.

Louise Sarazin
Louise Sarazin (left) with René Panhard , in front Émile Levassor and the Workshop manager Émile Mayade (1891).
Émile Levassor and Louise Sarazin-Levassor at the start of the 1895 Paris-Bordeaux-Paris .