We can be born under the Algerian sun and plant roots in the north of France. This was what Isidore Partouche had done in 1965, three years after the end of the Algerian war, by launching its business (karting, restaurant, nightclub) in these lands so far from its origins, before buying, in 1973, at the bar of the Commercial Court, the Casino de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (North), its thermal establishment and its sources. The Patriarch of Casinos died at his Parisian home on Wednesday, April 30, at the age of 94, the last historic figure in the sector after the disappearance of Georges Tranchant, in 2020. He left the second French group, behind Barrière.
Isidore Partouche was born on April 21, 1931, in Trézel (today Sougueur), in the still French Oran, of Jewish trading parents. He begins his professional life as a young electromechanic by opening a Philips dealership in Algeria, but it is the leisure that attracts the young pied-noir. Saint-Amand-les-Eaux will be the first stone of an empire of games which has forty-four casinos (in France, Belgium, Tunisia, etc.), so many restaurants, twelve hotels and two golf courses. Corporate spirit has never left a man who “Has been able to transform a family adventure into a group that has become essential in the leisure sector”salutes society.
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