Origin

• 1786, the September 20th, birth with Boulogne-sur-Mer. It is the third of seven children resulting from a former boulonnaise family of manufacturer of boats.
• 1857 Death the July 17th 1857 with Picpus (75).

Life

• Succeeds his/her father as manufacturer, trade which it gives up to take again the marble careers of Elinghen. It invents there the Physionomètre which made it possible to reproduce a human head in a reduced bust.
• 1832, on January 15th, with Honfleur, in the old basin and using a small boat, it proves during a public experiment which the propulsion by propeller is three times faster than that by paddle wheels. It can be regarded as the inventor of the propeller propulsion applied to the boats.

With a boat with propeller of 15 feet, on the channel of the Ourcq he does not convince the commission named by the minister of the Navy. He renews the experiment on the channel of the Villette with a boat charged with nine people and provided to the back with an actuated propeller with arm with man. The speed of its boat made the admiration of all the passengers. It is ruined however in its project.

• 1840, English Smith builds the Archimedes steamer of great dimension provided with a steam engine of 70 cv and with a back propeller. The Archiméde took the sea and functioned under the most favorable conditions.
• 1841, it gives up free its invention with the manufacturers of ships Normand and Barnés. Those modified it and adapted the merit of the invention. They built in particular Napoleon .

Frederic Sauvage protested to put forward the primacy of his discovery near the Academy of Science and a report/ratio of Mr. Séguier gave him reason.

• 1843, on May 8th, it is imprisoned with the prison of Le Havre under the terms of a judgment obtained by its creditors.

Mr. Séguier intervenes with Mr. the general Rumigny, aide-de-camp of the King, who thus announces “Patience and courage, honor and justice will be returned to you”. In spite of that, Frederic Sauvage remains imprisoned. Alphonse Karr could denounce the ingratitude whose Frederic Sauvage was victim, claiming for him its invention. Its articles had an important repercussion. Frederic Sauvage left prison and accepted a minimal pension of 2  000 francs per annum.

• 1854, on April 13rd, it enters to the private hospital of Picpus.
• 1857, on July 17th, it dies.

Homages

• the 1881 on September 12th, Inauguration of Frederic the Wild statue to Boulogne-sur-Mer. It is located on a place carrying its name (), statue of Mr. Lafrance (architect) and low relief of Mr. Edouard Lormier.
• there exists also a portrait painted by Mr. Paul Gavarni
• There belongs to the erudite soixante-douze whose name is registered on the Eiffel Tower.

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