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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jules Porg?'s (25 May 1839 - 20 September 1921) was a Paris-based financier who played a central role in the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa. He was born Yehuda Porges in Vienna and raised in Prague, where his father was a jeweller. He settled in Paris in the early 1860s and established himself as a diamond trader, through his company Jules Porg?'s & Cie. He recognised early the significance of the diamond finds in South Africa, and in 1873 sent two of his younger staff, Alfred Beit and Julius Wernher to South Africa as his firm's representatives. He arrived in Kimberley himself in 1876 and continued their work in consolidating claims, financing deals and marketing stones, so that his firm Compagnie Fran aise de Diamant du Cap de Bonne Esp rance gained a significant portion of the Kimberley mine. He saw the benefit of Cecil Rhodes's attempt to consolidate the disparate mining holdings, and sold the Compagnie Fran aise to De Beers Consolidated Mines in 1887. He was also instrumental in the negotiations that led to Rhodes buying the Kimberley Central Mining Company (the stake of Barney Barnato).

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