Leonce-Abel Mazoyer

See also: Mazoyer

Leonce-Abel Mazoyer (1846-1910) is one of the large engineers who left a deep trace in the body of the Bridge-and-Roadways.

Its most known work is without any doubt the tubular bridge of Briare (Loiret), which allows, since September 16th, 1896, with the side Canal in the Loire to cross the latter to go to be connected, 3 kilometers further, with the Canal of Briare. During more than one century, this work held the record European, and perhaps world, length in its category with 662 Mr. It was exceeded only in 2003 by the tubular bridge of Magdeburg, in Germany, which measures 918 Mr.

One owes him also the setting with the Feycinet gauge of all the river line of Roanne with Briare (the channels of Roanne with Digoin and Latéral in the Loire, is 250 km), as well as part of the Canal of the Resident of Nevers. It is within the framework of this modernization that it designs the tubular bridge of Briare, whereas it is at the post of chief engineer in Nevers.

In Roanne, Mazoyer dealt with the modernization of the port and conceived a " small frère" with the tubular bridge of Briare: the bridge-river of Oudan, metal like its " large frère" which one would say a segment posed on porphyry pinks and granite abutments.

External bonds

Dictionary of the inland waterways Frenchwoman in the Babel Project: the Side channel in the Loire

Dictionary of the inland waterways Frenchwoman in the Babel Project: the channel of Roanne with Digoin

DRAC Centers: the tubular bridge of Briare

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