Nicolas Brémontier

Nicolas Brémontier was born in 1738 with the Tronquay, in the the Eure. Initially mathematics professor in Toulon, it entered the Highways Departments, made its beginnings in Périgueux as assistant engineer and arrived at Bordeaux in 1770. Promoted engineer it left the city in 1780, to return in 1784 with the rank of chief engineer. Appointed general inspector of the Bridges and Chaussées in 1802, it will gain Paris where it will die in 1809.

It applied, among the first in France, the means of fixing the moving sand dunes which invaded the country located on the the Bay of Biscay, between the the Gironde and the Adour: the Moors of Gascogne (1786) by plantations of maritime pines, following work of the Captaux de Buch started in the south of the Basin of Arcachon, and being studied of the baron Charlevoix de Villiers. There is of him a Mémoire on the dunes , 1796.

Works

Research on the movement of the waves , F. Didot, Paris, 1809

Reference

Mr. Waistcoat-Laumont, Tessier, Chassiron, and Al , Report/ratio on the différens memories of Mr. Brémontier, inspector-general of the Highways Departments, in charge of the tenth division, and on work made to fix and cultivate the dunes of the Bay of Biscay, between Adour and the Gironde , Huzard, Paris, 1806

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