Paul-Adrien Bourdaloue
Paul-Adrien Bourdaloue | |
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| Born | 4 January 1798 Surveyor |
| Known for | Société d'Études du Canal de Suez |
Paul Adrien Bourdaloue (4 January 1798, Bourges - 21 June 1868, Bourges) was a French civil engineer and topographer, who proposed the first orthometric levelling of France.
Life
Head of the
Egyptian Expedition such as Jacques-Marie Le Père
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In 1857, he was commissioned to move onto the general levelling of mainland France. From 1857 to 1863, he laid out a network of 15,000 iron seals across France, providing the country's first level-lines.
He was maire-adjoint of the town of Bourges. In 1865, he entrusted to the architect Albert Tissandier the design of a château d'eau at Séraucourt, still visible. He is buried in the cimetière des Capucins at Bourges.
Works
- Nivellement général de la France (1864, several volumes in-8°), ed. Pigelet, Bourges
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