Editing Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (section)

==Early life and family==
[[File:Nicole Charlotte Marie Louise Le Dee de Rencourt (Madame du Pont) by Maurice Constant Favre, 1890-1915, marble - Winterthur Museum - DSC01693.JPG|thumb|Nicole-Charlotte Marie-Louise le Dée de Rencourt]]
Pierre du Pont was born on 14 December 1739, the son of Samuel du Pont and Anne Alexandrine de Montchanin. His father was a watchmaker and French Protestant, or [[Huguenot]]. His mother was a descendant of an impoverished minor [[French nobility|noble family]] from [[Burgundy]].

Du Pont married Nicole-Charlotte Marie-Louise le Dée de Rencourt in 1766, also of a minor noble family. They had three sons: [[Victor Marie du Pont|Victor Marie]] (1767&ndash;1827), a manufacturer and politician; Paul François (December 1769–January 1770); and [[Éleuthère Irénée du Pont|Éleuthère Irénée]] (1771–1834), the founder of E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company in the United States. Nicole-Charlotte died 3 September 1784 of [[typhoid]].<ref name="americana">{{cite book|last1=Beach|first1=Frederick Converse|last2=Rines|first2=George Edwin|title=The Americana: A Universal Reference Library ...|date=1911|publisher=Americana Company|pages=121–27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cC0EAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA121|access-date=9 October 2016|language=en}}</ref>