Louis Boigues
| Jean Louis Boigues | |
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| Deputy for Nièvre | |
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In office 21 April 1828 – 16 May 1830 |
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| Deputy for Nièvre | |
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In office 23 June 1830 – 14 November 1838 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
25 April 1784 Lascelle, Cantal, France |
| Died | 14 November 1838 (aged 54) Fourchambault, Nièvre, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Industrialist and politician |
Jean Louis Boigues (25 April 1784 – 14 November 1838) was a French industrialist and politician.
Jean Louis Boigues was born on 25 April 1784 in Lascelle, Cantal. The Boigues family seems to have moved from Catalonia to France in the 17th century. His parents were Pierre Boigues (1755–1820) and Catherine Brousse (1764–1848). His father was a rich Parisian iron merchant. 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. Another sister, Gabrielle Boigues (1788–1855), married Claude Hochet on 5 September 1807, when Hochet was secretary of the Contentious Affairs Committee. In July 1825 Louis Boigues married Claudine Françoise Montanier (1785–1864).
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. Dufaud was the son of an Ancien Régime ironmaster and a pioneer of ironmaking using coal. Boigues supplied the money and commercial connections. Boigues bought the forge in 1820 and moved it to Fourchambault on the Loire below Nevers. The Fourchambault ironworks used coke-blast smelting process. 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.
Over the ensuing 15 years Boiges, Dufaud and their partners developed Fourchambault into a major center of metallurgy. 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. Émile Martin, Dufaud's son-in-law, built a foundry near the Fourchambault forge. In the 1820s the Boigues and other partners in Fourchambault such as Dufaud and Martin were heavily involved in promoting railways.
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