Antoine Frerejean
Antoine Frerejean (1736-1789) is an ironmaster.
Antoine Frerejean, main ironmonger, made fortune at the 18th century, by providing copper to the French Navy. Clearer of new ways, it builds the first steamer of the History (the Steamship).
1736 - Birth with Pont-de-Vaux, wire of Jean-Marie Frerejean, Main ironmonger whose forging mill is located place Maubert (today Joubert place) overhanging Reyssouze
1747 - 1752 - Studies with the Royal College of Bridge of Be worth *
1752 - 1758 - Training of the trades of copper: - in Pont of Be worth, with the paternal forging mill - then with Lyon at Courteous, Main ironmonger, whose forging mill specialized in the work of copper is located on the quays of the Saone near the Composts
1758 - 1773 - Wife Benoite Berger, beautiful girl of Courteous Master of which it takes again the whole of the Lyons workshops at the twenty-two years age
- during fifteen years Antoine Frerejean furrowed England, the Saint Worsens and Hungary and became one of the first copper traders of Europe
- in the years 1770, AF devotes an important part of the production of her forging mill of Lyon to the copper passementerie which experiences a very strong development then
1774 - AF acquires with Pont-Évêque near Vienna (in the Dauphine one) an old forging mill with copper which became by its exceptional situation (coal of Saint-Etienne, river and canal system), one of the florets during hundred years of the industrial empire of Frerejean
1778 - 1781 - AF accepted at the time of the war of independence of the United States the royal order to double the hull of 25 warships of copper plates to avoid the rotting of the hulls out of wooden in the hot seas of the Antilles
- the doubling of each hull brought back on average thirty thousand books to the Frerejean forging mills
1781 - 1783 - AF made carry out in its workshops of Vaise to Lyon the first steamer of the history within Jouffroy d' Abans; the July 15th 1783 the Steamship went up the Saone de Vaise in the Barbe island under the applause of several thousands of Lyonese
- 1789 - the May 22nd 1789 AF dies in its field of Crécy with Saint Cyr with the gold Mount, leaving its forging mills to its two sons Georges and Louis who appeared large metallurgists
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