Jacques de Manse

Jacques Manse or of Manse , wire of Jacques de Manse and Jeanne of Gauthier, sees the day the April 22nd 1628 with Montpellier. He is the second of a family of at least six children. Of Protestant confession, it will be baptized with the Temple on June 13rd, 1628. The family of Manse occupied during several decades of the important stations on the area of Montpellier. His/her father was lieutenant particular to the Présidial of Montpellier, his older brother, Jacques was President treasurer from France to Montpellier. It is quite naturally that he became Contrôleur of the attics with salt of the province and Intendant of the gabelle S. It is possible that it followed studies in the magistrature, because he occupied the load of Substitut of the public prosecutor in the court of Montpellier starting from March 19th, 1656. He dies the December 30th 1699 in Montpellier.

The Channel of the two-seas (Channel of the South)

Large friend of Pierre-Paul Riquet of Camaran (originating in Béziers), it assembled with this last to Paris in 1662, to present to Colbert the project of the Canal of the South. This last accepts that a test is carried out, but provided that the royal treasure is not requested. Pierre-Paul Riquet and Jacques de Manse, become rich thanks to their function of Intendant S of the Gabelle S, finance the drain of test. Indeed, the idea was not new, and the reports/ratios diligentés up to now concluded with the impossibility of the project, because of the uneven ones. The force of the project of the duet was that Riquet, engineer, had solved the problem thanks to its knowledge of the Black Montagne, where it resided. Launched in the construction of the Channel, Jacques had in load the recruitment of the workmen and the negotiations with the owners of the grounds which the Channel was to cross.

Its entry in Paris

During the year 1669, it loses his wife Antoinette de Grasset, whom it had married the November 8th 1653. He had embraced the same year the religion Romaine.

Forsaking since the death of his wife her residence of Montpellier (the Hotel of Manse 4, rue Embouque d'Or), it resides most of the time at Paris (Rue of Grenelle). It meets there Catherine-Isabelle-Marie Talon, girl of Pierre Talon, lawyer with the Parlement of Paris and superintendent of the vivres to the armies of Roy and of Isabelle-Elisabeth Dulach, widow of Pierre of Cavalliera. The Heel are then an extremely known Parisian family any Paris , it was illustrated in particular in the Magistrature. He marries the aforementioned Catherine-Isabelle-Marie Talon in 1677 in the Parish of Saint-Andre-of-Arts. This alliance will open innumerable Parisian doors to him, because the Heel have during the years carried out of alliances of most remarkable. Indeed, it is all the power of the Parlement of Paris, but also of the Parisian important administration which ravels: the tribe of the Heel, of which powerful the Omer, which provides the first general inspector of the channel of the two seas in the person of Heel of White House, the mother of the intendant Tuboeuf which worked with Bazin de Bezons, the beautiful mother of Daguesseau; Bignon, Phelypeaux…

Were present at the time of the weddings, Monseigneur the Prince, Monseigneur the duke and Madam the duchess, Monseigneur the duke of Bourbon, Monseigneur the duke of Berwick, Mr. d' Usson de Bonrepos, the marquis de Castries and his brother and the count de Clermont, Ranchin of Paris, secretaries to the council of the king, originating in Montpellier, with Mr. Pouget, also secretary of the king, Boutard, general treasurer and Thomas, magistrate in Montpellier, etc

All that as well represented supports at the court and in the royal councils as in the government of the Languedoc. At the time when Riquet started to have some financial vexations, these beautiful people without any doubt represented in its eyes the possibility of supports, enabling him to continue its projects by facilitating the task to him.

Jacques, parallel to his hydraulic projects, decides to invest in Paris. After having acquired the Private mansion of the Street of Saint-Honore Butcheries, it also becomes purchaser of butcheries, which enables him to generate substantial incomes.

The pump of the bridge Notre-Dame (Paris)

In 1670, Jacques de Manse proposes - under the figurehead of Guillaume Fondrinier - at the office of the town of Paris a machine to raise 1000 m ³ water of the the Seine since a machine placed in the " Large Moulin" miller of the Bridge Notre-Dame. He asked for the sum of 40.OOO books tournaments to carry it out and obtain the promise of the city which he would be in possession of the Grand Mill . After having taken knowledge of the treaty, Jacques de Manse voluntarily obliged and jointly Guillaume Fondrinier to be dislocated, the March 26th 1670. The May 2nd 1670, Guillaume Fondrinier recognized in front of notary that it had lent his name and that it would claim nothing the clauses mentioned in the act of guarantee because it declared that all belonged to Jacques de Manse. This last appeared the April 9th 1671 at the clerk's office of the town of Paris in order to accept the conditions which the city about the elevatory machine imposed to him. It urged anything to add to the machines and with the movements who were used to raise water, and it agree to present the parts in detail at the time of the visits of Chignin, carpenter of the king.

Work were with load of Jacques of Manse but responsibility for building site returned with Chignin and all other people qualified that they are various operations (removal, addition, increase, reduction of parts) without them not disturbing or the machine components of the mill do not damage. The parts were judged by the carpenter of the king; The tree of the wheel and the working were carried out according to its drawings. During work, Mr. de Manse did not have the right to intervene on the building site without the assent of Chignin.

In 1672, work seems finished. The machine enters in service with a flow which will never exceed half of the contractual flow. In 1677, the rout of the ices damages the pumps, carry some piles of the mills as well as the gallery leading of the bridge to the two machines, shaking the buildings. In December 1678, the production of the machines drops. During the winter, the frosts are made profitable to repair the machine. For this period, the maintenance of the machine, under the responsibility of Jacques de Manse is neglected. It diverts part of water assembled to use it in hydraulic installations with its personal use. In 1680, the load of the machine is withdrawn to him and entrusted to the carpenter Jean Albert.

The Channel of Ourcq

In addition, in July 1676, Louis XIV granted by letters patent to Sirs of Riquet and Manse the authorization of the channel of Ourcq, the duke of Orleans, due to its duchy of Valois, granting his the May 20th 1677. These letters thus gave the possibility of opening this channel of fifty miles, energy of the river of Ourcq to the Marne, and of ten miles beyond Meaux, to Paris; work was to be financed by the rights of butchery like by the water transfers to the private individuals.

It is known that Jacques de Manse about only dealt with this company, Riquet too being of course absorbed by the Channel of the South. It is thus him which led the project of Lizy-on-Ourcq until Meaux, that is to say nearly four miles, making thus perfectly navigable with the good gauge the river, which was it hardly. But the death of Riquet (1680), and especially that of Colbert (1683), then the wars which followed, encouraged the Parlement of Paris to pronounce the stoppage of the works in 1684. However, Jacques de Manse carefully preserved all the plans, charts levels, titles, memories. Its widow Catherine Talon was agent with died of Jacques, which, under regency in 1717, presented a report to the duke of Orleans to continue the company.

The hydraulic pump of the Castle of Chantilly

Jacques appears in the correspondences of the Castle as of April 1673, and in the accounts as of April-May 1676 with for mission of producing the elevatory machine on behalf of the Prince de Condé. It is thus found, near large the The-Ours in the installation of the system of irrigation of the gardens of Chantilly. Moreover, the building built to shelter its machinery always exists, there acts of the Pavillon of Manse in Chantilly. The success of this company (contrary to that of the Notre Dame Bridge), was worth to him, if it is not the friendship, at least the regard of the Grand Cop. In October 1679, this one was the godfather of its last Jacques wire, baptized in Paris in the Saint-Roch parish.

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