I called his building firm's offices, but was met with a blank wall.
His father was a bricklayer, who later established a small building firm.
Layman who had been given the sack six months ago from a building firm.
However half way through the development the building firm went out of business and a new one replaced it.
Paul, a builder, came to London with a building firm he worked for, then decided to go it alone.
A problem with the first building firm, which went bankrupt, delayed the works.
He retired as president of a major building firm founded by his father.
It was a good move: soon, his own building firm had a payroll of 30 people.
As it happens, the Americans are partly responsible for the building firms' good fortune.
By 1789 he had made the company one of the largest building firms in Paris, employing 400 workers.