Achille de Jouffroy
Achille François Éléonore, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans (20 January 1785 – 1 December 1859) was a French military engineer, ironmaster and man of letters.
Biography
Achille de Jouffroy was born in Écully, the son of Claude François Dorothée de Jouffroy d'Abbans[1] and Marie-Magdeleine de Pingon de Vallier.
Engineer in the maritime forces of the Kingdom of Italy, director for two years of the lead mines of Vice Novo then war commissioner of the 2nd army corps in Udine, he returned to France in 1814 and followed Louis XVIII to Ghent in 1815 who named him knight of the Legion of Honour.
Director of the Gazette de France from 1816 to 1823, he was the author of various publications, including the Fastes de l'anarchie on the French Revolution.
In 1826, he met Dom Antoine, abbot of the Melleray Abbey, in a circle of Parisian legitimists. Impressed by the success of the religious establishment in agricultural matters, he decided to acquire a neighboring estate, La Jahotière (Loire-Inférieure). After having begun the agricultural exploitation of his new lands, he discovered an iron deposit there. He then decided to launch into the exploitation of the ore, especially since he was convinced of the presence of coal, which made it possible to envisage industrial development. The Nantes newspaper Le Breton echoed the tempting prospects. The mayor of Nantes, Louis-Hyacinthe Levesque, joined the affair. Significant investments made it possible to build a forge with a blast furnace and housing for the workers. But it quickly became clear that there was no coal in the subsoil; the prospects for yield were not up to the investment.[2]
After the Revolution of 1830 and the fall of Charles X, Jouffroy retired to London, where he published the newspaper La Légitimité, — supported by the funds of the refugees and edited by Capelle, Dudon, de Latil, etc. — the publication of which was banned in France. He then abandoned politics and returned to France, where he patented several inventions, including in 1843 a railway system with a third rack rail.
In 1856, the Sardinian government asked him for a railway project across the Alps via Mont Cenis, he went to Italy for this but died in Turin on December 1, 1859.
See also
Works
- Des idées libérales des français en mai 1815 (1815)
- Le Vampire (1820; with Charles Nodier and Pierre Carmouche)
- Les Fastes de l'anarchie ou précis chronologique des événemens mémorables de la révolution française depuis 1789 jusqu'en 1804 (1820)
- Réclamation en faveur de Monique, Vve Othon, âgée de 21 ans, condamnée à mort par la cour d'assises du Calvados (1820)
- Les Siècles de la monarchie française, ou Description historique de la France depuis ses premiers siècles jusqu'à Louis XVI... Précédé d'une Dissertation sur l'état des Gaules sous la domination romaine à l'époque de l'invasion des Barbares (1822; with Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Jorand)
- Réclamation de l'Ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem au congrès de Vérone (1823)
- Notice sur les manufactures de fer du comté de Staffort (1826)
- Du nouveau ministère (1829)
- Avertissement aux souverains, sur les dangers actuels de l'Europe (1831)
- Adieux à l'Angleterre (1832)
- Considérations sur le Portugal (1833)
- Introduction à l'histoire de France, ou description physique, politique et monumentale de la Gaule jusqu'à l'établissement de la monarchie (1838; with Ernest Breton)
- Des Bateaux à vapeur, précis historique de leur invention, essai sur la théorie de leur mouvement et description d'un appareil palmipède applicable à tous les navires (1839)
- Des bateaux à vapeur (1841)
- Chemins de fer, système Jouffroy, quelques mots à MM. les rédacteurs du "Journal des débats", à propos de leur article relatif au rapport de M. Mallet sur le chemin de fer atmosphérique (1844)
- Dictionnaire des erreurs sociales (1852; edited by Jacques Paul Migne)
- Nouveau système économique de voies ferrées applicable aux montagnes comme aux plaines, aux courbes de trés-faibles rayons et aux routes existantes (1863)
Notes
- ↑ Swinny, Shapland Hugh (1885). "Jouffroy, the Inventor of the Steamboat," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCLVIII, p. 92.
- ↑ Cozic, Jean-Charlez; Daniel Garnier (2008). La presse à Nantes de 1757 à nos jours, t. I. Les années Mangin (1757-1876). Nantes: L'Atalante, pp. 149–51.
References
- Bausset-Roquefort, Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Ferdinand de (1864). Notice sur le marquis Achille de Jouffroy d'Abbans, lue à la Société littéraire de Lyon, le 6 avril 1864. Lyon: Impr. de A. Vingtrinier.
- Sfoini, Alexandra (2003). “‘Hellenes’ Revisited: Asymmetrical Concepts in the Language of the Greek Revolution.” In: Kirill Postoutenko, ed., Beyond “Hellenes” and “Barbarians”: Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 149–80.
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