Humphrey Bradley

Engineer originating in Berg-COp-Zoom, in the Brabant, died in 1639.

The king Henri IV names it “Main Dams and Channels of the Kingdom” in 1599. By special Privilege, its mission extends on all the “fens and Marais” from France, which they belong to the royal field, the Église, the Noblesse or to the Tiers state.

With several associates Huguenot S originating like him in the Flanders, he undertakes several Dessèchement S in Aunis, Auvergne and in the Languedoc.

Sources

  • History of the drying of the lakes and marsh of France before 1789, Count E. of Diene 1891

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