Jean-Georges Dufaud

Jean-Georges Dufaud (1777 - 1852) is a French industrialist and business man.

Biography

Wire of ironmaster, it passes its childhood in those of Guérigny, in the Nievre.

1795 : graduate of the Polytechnic school

Study work methods of the Fer used in England

1819: meet the brothers Boigues, business men owners of forging mills. Eager to rationalize their production Expensive émiettées in many forging mills in the . The site of Fourchambault is proposed by Dufaud. Downstream from the junction the Loire and To combine, it can be supplied at the same time out of iron ore of the Bourbonnais by Combining it and out of coal Nivernais since Decize by the Loire.
1821 : beginning of the construction of the factory

Fourchambault is affirmed then like the “Manchester of the France”, one of the most important production sites of the country and showpiece of the Industrial revolution during the Second Empire. 10 ha, 4.000 workmen produce each day there 6 tons of iron. De Fourchambault will leave mainly the elements metallic bridges (railroad of Nevers), but also to Peru, Algérie, in Holland, of the parts of the Eiffel Tower.

1838 : Dufaud entrusts the direction of the factory to his/her son and his son-in-law. There remains attached to the company which he founded as consulting engineer.

Parallel to its career of industrialist, Dufaud is implied in the local life. He is elected mayor of his commune, Marzy in 1832 before the creation of Fourchambault by scission of the commune in 1855.

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