François Clement Sauvage

François Clement Sauvage , born with Sedan, the April 4th 1814, deceased with Paris the November 11th 1872. It rests in Sedan.

Commander of the Legion of honor, chief engineer of the mines, deputy of the the Seine, and director of the Railroad of the East.

It entered to the Polytechnic school at the seventeen years age, to leave it, in 1833, the first of its promotion: appointed mining engineer, it was sent to Mézières: curious research on the metallurgy, mineralogy and chemistry announced it soon to the erudite world.

At the same time, with the collaboration of Mr. Buvinier, it drew up the beautiful geological maps of the Marne and the the Ardennes and made appear the geological Description of this last department.

In 1838 and 1842, Sauvage was in charge of scientific explorations in Spain, in the collieries of the Asturies and the metalliferous mines of the province of Carthagène.

Sent in Greece in 1845, to study the question of the drying of the lake Capaïs, Sauvage published in his return a geological Description of Greece .

In 1846, it left the body of the mines to enter as engineer to the service of the company of the railroads of the East and built a section of Frouard at the border.

In 1848, it was sent by the government in the extraordinary capacity as police chief to restore the order with the Creusot.

The next April 4th, the capacity entrusted to him the administration of the sequestration of the Railroad of Orleans.

Returned with the company of the East, it was named by it director on March 1st, 1861.

Named appointed at the National Assembly the 21e on 43 in Paris, with a majority of 102.690 votes, at the elections of February 8th, 1871, it sat at the Room at the center left until its death in 1872.

source

Random links: