Claude Deschamps

Claude Deschamps with the necklace of a commander of the Legion of Honor

Claude Deschamps (* 1765 in Vertus ; † 1843 in Bordeaux ) was a French engineer . He played a leading role in the construction of the Pont de Pierre (Bordeaux) , the warehouse for colonial goods in Bordeaux and the Canal des Ardennes .

Deschamps graduated from the École des Ponts et Chaussées in 1782 and rose step by step in the French state building administration. In 1803 he became chief engineer in Mont-Cenis and in 1810 department head in Bordeaux .

In connection with Napoleon's Spanish War 1808–1813, he was involved in the development of two strategic road connections towards the Iberian Peninsula (one via Bayonne , the other via Vallée d'Aspe ).

The Pont de pierre of Bordeaux.

Deschamps made particular contributions to the technically difficult construction of the Pont de Pierre .

Claude Deschamps also designed, together with his son-in-law Billaudel, the Entrepôt des Denrées coloniales (colonial warehouse) in Bordeaux, today the Center d'arts plastiques contemporains de Bordeaux .

Entrepôt des Denrées coloniales in Bordeaux.
The Canal des Ardennes near Vouziers .

publication

Des travaux à faire pour l'assainissement et la culture des Landes et de Gascogne et des canaux de jonction de l ' Adour et de la Garonne , de Claude Deschamps, Carilian-Goeury, Paris ( 1832 ).

literature

Guy Coriono: 250 ans de l'École des Ponts en cent portraits , Presses de l ' École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées , Paris (1997)
Claude Deschamps et le projet de canal des Landes , de Catherine Weill-Rochant, Picard éd, Paris (1986).

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personal data
SURNAME	Deschamps, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	1765
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vertus
DATE OF DEATH	1843
Place of death	Bordeaux