location of the present day Pont des Arts: this was the first metal bridge in Paris. The engineers Louis-Alexandre de Cessart and Jacques Dillon initially...
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Louis-Alexandre de Cessart (25 August 1719, Paris – 12 April 1806, Rouen) was a French road and bridge engineer. He served in the "gendarmerie de la Maison...
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nationale des ponts et chaussées; lit. 'National School of Bridges and Roads'; or ENPC, also nicknamed Ponts (formerly known as École des Ponts ParisTech)...
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Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, is completed. The Pont des Arts in Paris, designed by Louis-Alexandre de Cessart and Jacques Dillon, is completed. Rostokino...
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Paris debut under Napoleon, with the construction of the Pont des Arts by Louis-Alexandre de Cessart and Jacques Lacroix-Dillon (1801–03). This was followed...
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the tip of Querqueville, using a method developed by Louis-Alexandre de Cessart, a pier of 90 wooden cones of 20 m (66 ft) by 20, filled with rubble, connected...
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Poivre, French horticulturalist (d. 1786) August 25 Louis-Alexandre de Cessart, French engineer (d. 1806) Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter...
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