Emiland Gauthey (Émiland-Marie Gauthey), in French pronounced [gō/tɛ], born Dec. 3, 1732, Châlon-sur-Saône, France and died July 14, 1806, Paris, was a French civil engineer and architect in the Age of Enlightenment. He designed some churches and public buildings but he mostly worked on bridge design and canal construction in Burgundy.

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  • Emiland Gauthey (Émiland-Marie Gauthey), in French pronounced [gō/tɛ], born Dec. 3, 1732, Châlon-sur-Saône, France and died July 14, 1806, Paris, was a French civil engineer and architect in the Age of Enlightenment. He designed some churches and public buildings but he mostly worked on bridge design and canal construction in Burgundy. Emiland Gauthey studied at the École Royale des Ponts et Chaussées (School of Bridges and Highways) in Paris before his appointment at Chalon-sur-Saône as civil engineer. Then, between 1783 and 1793, he led as Chief Engineer of Burgundy the construction of the Canal du Centre, or Charolais Canal which joined the Loire and Saône rivers (at Chalon-sur-Saône) in Burgundy. It was opened in 1792 and made possible for the first time boat traffic from the north of France to the south. Emiland Gauthey also built several bridges in Burgundy: (Gueugnon, Navilly and Chalon-sur-Saône, and, as architect, the Hôtel de ville of Tournus, the Theater at Chalon-sur-Saône and churches at Givry and Louhans. After the French Revolution, he became one of national responsables for ways, canals and bridges in Paris and was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1804 . Emiland Gauthey died suddenly on July 14, 1806.
  • Émiland Marie Gauthey, né à Chalon-sur-Saône le 3 décembre 1732 et mort à Paris le 14 juillet 1806, est un ingénieur civil et un architecte français du XVIIIe siècle. Ingénieur des États de Bourgogne, il est le concepteur de très nombreuses réalisations dans sa région comme le canal du Centre entre Digoin et Chalon-sur-Saône (1784 – 1793), des ponts comme ceux de Navilly (1782-1790) et de Gueugnon (1784 - 1787), ou encore d'édifices comme l'église Saint Pierre et Saint Paul de Givry (Saône-et-Loire) (1772 à 1791) ou le Théâtre de Chalon-sur-Saône. Nommé Ingénieur en chef des États de Bourgogne en 1782, il occupera après la Révolution des postes importants dans la Haute administration des Ponts-et Chaussées à Paris et sera décoré de la Légion d'Honneur en 1804 lors de la création de l'ordre par Napoléon. Son buste achevé en 1808 par Guillaume Boichot, chalonnais lui aussi, est exposé au Musée Vivant-Denon à Chalon-sur-Saône où un lycée porte son nom.
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  • Emiland Gauthey (Émiland-Marie Gauthey), in French pronounced [gō/tɛ], born Dec. 3, 1732, Châlon-sur-Saône, France and died July 14, 1806, Paris, was a French civil engineer and architect in the Age of Enlightenment. He designed some churches and public buildings but he mostly worked on bridge design and canal construction in Burgundy.
  • Émiland Marie Gauthey, né à Chalon-sur-Saône le 3 décembre 1732 et mort à Paris le 14 juillet 1806, est un ingénieur civil et un architecte français du XVIIIe siècle.
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