Auguste Detœuf

Auguste Detœuf (August 6th 1883 - April 11th 1947) is a Industriel and Essayiste French.

Polytechnic former student of (Promotion 1902), general engineer of the Bridges and Chaussées, it begins in 1908 with hydraulic work from the marine with Cherbourg. He is then named with the Havre in 1912. It is interested in the problems of exploitation of the ports and implements its ideas during the First World War. He is affected at the technical commission of the inland waterways. Of director of the port of Strasbourg, he becomes managing director of Thomson-Houston. He will be of 1928 with 1940 the first president of Alstom.

Implied in the upheavals of its time, he makes in 1936 a famous speech in front of the Groupe X-Crisis entitled the end of the Libéralisme . He took part in 1938 in the Colloque Walter Lippmann where, on certain topics, he was opposed to Ludwig von Mises. He was also one of the founders of the review the Nouveaux books which militated for the bringing together of the Patronat with the Syndicat S Ouvrier S. Under the Occupation, he is president of one of the " committees of organization" created by the mode of Vichy, the Steering Committee of the electric construction industries.

But Auguste Detœuf is undoubtedly more known for his collection small Essai S, maxim S and Aphorisme S written at the end of the years 1930, Propos of O.L. Barenton, confectioner . In an often humorous way, it treats many topics like the human nature, the economy, the operation of the Entreprise… This work is regularly republished.

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