Eugene Belgrand

Eugene Belgrand , born with Ervy-le-Châtel (Paddle) in 1810 and died in Paris the April 8th 1878, is a Engineer French, known for its participation in renovation works of Paris in second half of the 19th century.

Biography

Polytechnicien, general engineer of the Bridges and Chaussées, elected free member of the Academy of Science in 1871, Eugene Belgrand took part in the restoration of Paris directed by the Baron Haussmann, between 1852 and 1870, in company of the engineer Jean-Charles Alphand and the gardener Jean-Pierre Barrel-Deschamps.

One owes him the sewer S of Paris, the aqueduct of the Valve, of which the work most remarkable mark the border between the communes of Arcueil and Cachan, like that of the Dhuis.

Belgrand also made work as a historian of Paris, thus paying homage to its predecessors fountain-makers of the capital such as Solomon de Caus and the manufacturers of the Samaritaine of the Pont-Neuf.

Principal publications

  • the Seine. The Paris basin at the ages antehistoric (1869)
  • underground Work of Paris (5 volumes, 1872-1887)
  • preliminary Study on the mode of water in the basin of the Seine (1873)
  • Roman Aqueducts (1875)

Homages

Its name is registered on the Eiffel Tower.

External bonds

  • Biographical note
  • the aqueduct of Dhuis

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