Jean Louis Boigues

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Jean Louis Boigues
Deputy for Nièvre
In office
21 April 1828 – 16 May 1830
Deputy for Nièvre
In office
23 June 1830 – 14 November 1838
Personal details
Born(1784-04-25)25 April 1784
Lascelle, Cantal, France
Died14 November 1838(1838-11-14) (aged 54)
Fourchambault, Nièvre, France
OccupationIndustrialist and politician

Jean Louis Boigues (25 April 1784 – 14 November 1838) was a French industrialist and politician.

Family[edit]

Jean Louis Boigues was born on 25 April 1784 in Lascelle, Cantal.[1] The Boigues family seems to have moved from Catalonia to France in the 17th century.[2] His parents were Pierre Boigues (1755–1820) and Catherine Brousse (1764–1848).[3] His father was a rich Parisian iron merchant.[4][a] His family married into newly wealthy aristocratic families. Marie Boigues, sister of Louis Boigues, married Count Hippolyte Jaubert. Jaubert was the nephew and adopted son of Francois Jaubert, a wealthy and powerful regent of the Bank of France.[2] Another sister, Gabrielle Boigues (1788–1855), married Claude Hochet on 5 September 1807, when Hochet was secretary of the Contentious Affairs Committee.[4] In July 1825 Louis Boigues married Claudine Françoise Montanier (1785–1864).[5]

Iron master[edit]

Boigues became an iron merchant and army contractor based in Paris. He collaborated with the engineer Georges Dufaud, who had studied metallurgy in Wales and in 1818 set up a forge using Welsh techniques at Trézy in the Nivernais.[6] Dufaud was the son of an Ancien Régime ironmaster and a pioneer of ironmaking using coal. Boigues supplied the money and commercial connections.[2] Boigues bought the forge in 1820 and moved it to Fourchambault on the Loire below Nevers.[6] The Fourchambault ironworks used coke-blast smelting process.[2] Dufaud continued to manage the forge. Their plan was to combine the new approach to refining iron using coal with the more conventional approach using charcoal practiced in Berry.[6]

Over the ensuing 15 years Boiges, Dufaud and their partners developed Fourchambault into a major center of metallurgy.[6] They bought ten blast furnaces in the region around Fourchambault and existing ironworks that included a sheet metal plant at Imphy and a nail factory at Cosne.[7] Émile Martin, Dufaud's son-in-law, built a foundry near the Fourchambault forge.[8] In the 1820s the Boigues and other partners in Fourchambault such as Dufaud and Martin were heavily involved in promoting railways.[8]

In 1836 the brothers Adolphe and Eugène Schneider acquired the iron works at Le Creusot with investments by François Alexandre Seillière and Louis Boigues.[9] Adolphe had married Valerie Aignan, stepdaughter of Louis Boigues.[10] When Boigues died in 1838 the Fourchambault enterprise was reorganized as a societé en commandite, a limited partnership controlled by the heirs of Boigues and Dufaud. The Société Boigues & Cie soon began a major expansion to meet growing demand from railways.[8] Claude Hochet's son Jules Hochet became manager of the iron foundry of the Société Boigues & Cie.[11]

Deputy[edit]

Boigues was a knight of the Legion of Honour when he ran for election to the legislature in 1828.[12] He was deputy from 21 April 1828 to 16 May 1830 for the Nièvre department as candidate of the Liberal opposition.[1] He sat in the left center, defended the Charter and voted against the ministry of Jules de Polignac.[12] Under the July Monarchy he was elected deputy for Nièvre on 23 June 1830 and sat with the center left. He was reelected on 5 July 1831, 21 June 1834 and 4 November 1837, sitting with the government majority.[1] He took part in the condemnation of the La Tribune newspaper.[12]

Jean Louis Boigues died on 14 November 1838 in Fourchambault, Nièvre.[1]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ His father advertised as: "Boygues, Cour Saint-Louis, Faubourg Saint-Antoine, n° 26. Sell and buy old iron, lead, copper, tin, bell metal and whole bells".[5]
  1. ^ a b c d Jean-Louis Boigues – Assemblée.
  2. ^ a b c d Landes 1999, p. 271.
  3. ^ Derrien, Jean Louis BOIGUES.
  4. ^ a b Doyon & Parc 1972, p. 37.
  5. ^ a b Louis BOIGUES – Pierfit.
  6. ^ a b c d Smith 2006, p. 183.
  7. ^ Smith 2006, pp. 183–184.
  8. ^ a b c Smith 2006, p. 184.
  9. ^ D'Angio 2006, p. 347.
  10. ^ Landes 1999, p. 270.
  11. ^ Derrien, Jules Louis HOCHET.
  12. ^ a b c Robert & Cougny 1889.

Sources[edit]

  • D'Angio, Agnès (2006). "The industrial and financial use of patents by Schneider et Cie". Transferts de technologies en Méditerranée. Presses Paris Sorbonne. ISBN 978-2-84050-374-3. Retrieved 2013-08-11.
  • Derrien, Cédric, "Prosper HOCHET", Geneanet, retrieved 2017-08-28
  • Doyon, André; Parc, Yves Du (1972), De Mélanie à Lamiel: ou, D'un amour d'Henri Beyle au roman de Stendahal, Librairie Droz, ISBN 978-2-600-04335-9, retrieved 2017-08-28
  • Landes, David S. (1999-05-17), The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, W. W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-06981-5, retrieved 2017-10-15
  • Jean-Louis Boigues (in French), Assemblée nationale, retrieved 2017-10-15
  • Pierfit, Louis BOIGUES (in French), retrieved 2017-10-15
  • Robert, Adolphe; Cougny, Gaston (1889), "Boigues (Jean-Louis)", Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889 (in French), retrieved 2017-10-15
  • Smith, Michael Stephen (2006), The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-01939-3, retrieved 2017-10-15
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