Antoine Choquet de Lindu

Antoine Choquet de Lindu (November 7th 1712 with Brest, France - October 7th 1790 with Brest, France) naval engineer and Architect French.

Entered the navy as a writer of the Navy, like his father, it is named assistant engineer in 1743 then chief engineer in 1746. Of 1764 with 1767, the departments of the War and Navy amalgamate; Choquet de Lindu is attached to the royal Body of the Genius with the commission of captain of infantry. It however is maintained in the function of director of the work of the wearing of Brest under the orders of Amédée-François Frézier.

Choquet de Lindu devotes between 1738 and 1784, date on which it leaves the service, with the repair and the improvement of the largest port of Brittany. It carries out there “work of all species”: holds of construction, barracks, hospital, dams, stores, basins of rafts and construction, hospital, forging mills, buildings of the bagne and a manufacture of tarpaulins.

It was calculated that the establishments and buildings built by this engineer in the course of his career cover a surface of 4.400 square meters.

The principal ones among these constructions are the vault of the Jesuits, contiguous to the Saint-Louis hospital, the Bagne of Brest and the three forms or basins of Pontaniou of which it resumed work in 1751 to finish it in 1757.

Work

( List drawn from '')

1738-1744: Four holds of construction of Bordenave

1740: Vault of the seminar of the Jesuits known as vault of the navy

1740: Forging mills of naval constructions

1740: Second prison of Pontaniou

1740: Bakery, laundrette, wash-house and offices of the maritime hospital

1740: Store with irons and joinery

1744-1745: General store

1745-1747: High rope manufacture

1747: Store with the tar, forging mills, iron work, plumbing

1747: Park with the balls on the quay with the vivres

1747: Bakery of five furnaces to the Park with the vivres

1747: Provisional installation in bagne of the low rope manufacture

1750-1751: Bagne, fence of the Arsenal

1751-1757: Forms of Pontaniou

1753: Fountain on the Quay of the Rope manufacture

1753: Store with the masts

1756-1761: Barracks of the district of the navy

1763-1764: Second mole of Pontaniou

1766: Theater of the navy

1766-1767: Barracks of the sailors (second deposit) to the first stage

1766: Raising of the machine with mâter

1768-1769: Store with irons along the first form of Pontaniou

1768-1770: Bakery of fourteen furnaces

1769: Fountain on the quay of Kéravel

1770-1771: Two hangars with the masts in Salou

1775: Cover of the third form of Pontaniou

1777-1779: Barraques behind the body of the hospital

1780: Hospital of Pontanézen

It in addition carried out other work that those of the port of Brest:

1756 : project of the port of Hogue

1772: project of a building site with Landevennec, in the river of Châteaulin.

One owes him also the tower of the Phare of Stiff of the island of Ushant
One owes him the theater of Brest, which it built in eight month, room favorable to acoustics and laid out so that the spectators see très-bien of all the points.
Member of the academy of navy, it published two works:

1757 : the Description of the three shapes of the wearing of Brest

1759: the Description of the bagne of the arsenal of Brest