Joseph Cachin
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Baron Joseph Marie François Cachin (2 October 1757, Castres
- 23 February 1825, Paris) was a French engineer, notable for his work on Cherbourg Harbour
. Honoré de Balzac
wrote of him in Le Curé de village
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Castres
Castres is a commune, and arrondissement capital in the Tarn department and Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France. It lies in the former French province of Languedoc....
- 23 February 1825, Paris) was a French engineer, notable for his work on Cherbourg Harbour
Cherbourg Harbour
Cherbourg Harbour is the largest artificial harbour in the world, with a surface area of around 1,500 hectares...
. Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
wrote of him in Le Curé de village
Le Curé de village
Le Curé de village is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. It first appeared in La Presse in 1839. Frequently revised, the edited text was published as a separate volume in 1841. It covers themes that Balzac had already developed in le Médecin de campagne - improvements to living conditions in rural areas...
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