Pierre François Dumont (12 January 1789 – 27 July 1864) was a French industrialist involved in mining and iron making in the Nord department. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies during the July Monarchy.
Pierre François Dumont | |
|---|---|
| Deputy for Nord | |
| In office 21 June 1834 – 12 June 1842 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 January 1789 Bouchain, Nord, France |
| Died | 25 July 1864 (aged 75) Ferrières, Nord, France |
Early years
editPierre François Dumont was born on 12 January 1789 in Bouchain, Nord.[1] His parents were Jean Baptiste Dumont and Marie Félicité Joseph Rémy.[2] His father was a wealthy baker in Bouchain.[3] During the Napoleonic Wars he enlisted as a simple soldier in 1808, and served in Spain until 1814. He received the cross of the Legion of Honour on the battlefield of Arapiles.[2] He rose to the rank of captain of the light infantry.[4] He fought at the battles of Toulouse and Waterloo.[2]
Industrialist
editDumont was placed on half pay at the Bourbon Restoration, and retired to Bouchain. There he became an associate in exploiting the Raismes foundry.[2] Dumont became a knight of the Legion of Honour on 10 October 1816.[4] Around 1824 Dumont et Cie was founded "to exploit the first establishments of forges and rolling mills of Valenciennes". In 1828 Dumont applied for a concession to operate iron mines in the canton of Maubeuge, and for authorization to establish two iron furnaces at Ferrière-la-Grande powered by steam.[5] Dumont founded the factories at Ferrière-la-Grande in 1830, the first coke-fired blast furnaces in the north of France to produce and mould pig-iron from the local minerals.[6]
In 1834, Dumont bought half of the land for the Denain iron factory, the other half belonging to Serret and Lelièvre.[5] The Société Serret, Lelièvre et Cie was constituted in 1834 to build and run the Forges de Denain. The partners were Georges Serret, Isidore Charpentier-Odolant and Charles Lelièvre. Dumont also participated. Serret and Dumont were also partners in the Forges de Raismes (Renaux, Dumont et Cie).[7] The factory in Denain was located beside the Escaut river, which had been canalized between Valenciennes and Cambrai since 1775.[8] The Mines d'Anzin operated three coal mines 100 metres (330 ft) below the Denain factory.[8] The first coke-fired blast furnaces of the Forges de Denain began operations in 1836.[9]
Dumont married Aglaé-Renelde-Marianne-Antoinette de Martigny des Roches on 18 October 1841.[10] In 1849 Léon Talabot took control of the Denain and Anzin forges and merged them.[9] Talabot combined the Forges et Laminoirs d'Anzin with the Serret, Lelièvre, Dumont et Cie company of Denain to form the Société des hauts-fourneaux et des forges de Denain et Anzin, the largest metallurgical company in the Nord Department.[11] By decree of 23 April 1859 Dumont was granted a concession to build a railway line to link the factories Ferrière-la-Grande to the Saint-Quentin line at Erquelinnes. The line was built on land acquired by Dumont or expropriated on the grounds of public utility.[12]
Politician
editDumont became a municipal councilor and a general councilor in the department of Nord. On 21 June 1834 he was elected deputy for the constituency of Valenciennes, Nord.[2] At first he sat with the center left, but then joined the dynastic opposition led by Odilon Barrot. He was reelected on 4 November 1837 and on 2 March 1839. He left office on 12 June 1842 and retired from national politics.[2] Dumont was mayor of Ferrière-la-Grande from 1860 to 1864.[citation needed] He was awarded the Saint Helena Medal.[4]
Pierre François Dumont died on 27 July 1864 in Ferrière-la-Grande, Nord.[1] He was survived by his widow and by his son and sole heir Alphonse-Edgard Dumont.[10] There is a Rue Pierre-François Dumont in Ferrière-la-Grande.[13]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ a b Pierre, François Dumont – Assemblée.
- ^ a b c d e f Robert & Cougny 1889.
- ^ Barbier & Daviet 1989, p. 37.
- ^ a b c Reconstitution des Matricules 1872.
- ^ a b Barbier & Daviet 1989, p. 217.
- ^ Bulletin de le Societe ... 1890, p. 265.
- ^ Barbier & Daviet 1989, p. 357.
- ^ a b Hardy-Hemery 1983, p. 58.
- ^ a b Hardy-Hémery 2002, p. 31.
- ^ a b Cazot 1881, p. 617.
- ^ Smith 2006, p. 186.
- ^ Carnot 1881, p. 367.
- ^ 19 Rue Pierre-François Dumont.
Sources
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- Barbier, Frédéric; Daviet, Jean-Pierre (1989), Le patronat du Nord sous le Second Empire: une approche prosopographique, Librairie Droz, ISBN 978-2-600-03408-1, retrieved 2017-08-19
- "Etablissements metallurgiques de Ferrière-la-grande", Bulletin de le Societe de l'Industrie Minerale (in French), vol. IV, Société de l'industrie minérale, 1890, retrieved 2017-10-28
- Carnot, Sadi (1881), Annales des ponts et chaussees. 2. partie: Partie administrative (in French), retrieved 2017-10-28
- Cazot, Jules (1881), Bulletin des lois de la République franc̜aise (in French), Imprimerie nationale, retrieved 2017-10-28
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- Hardy-Hemery, Odette (October–December 1983), "Une nébuleuse en expansion aux XIXe et XXe siècles: l'espace de l'usine sidérurgique de Denain", Le Mouvement social (in French), 125 (125), Editions l'Atelier on behalf of Association Le Mouvement Social: 57–78, doi:10.2307/3777682, JSTOR 3777682
- Hardy-Hémery, Odette (2002), Trith-Saint-Léger: du premier âge industriel à nos jours (in French), Presses Univ. Septentrion, ISBN 978-2-85939-768-5, retrieved 2017-08-19
- Pierre, François Dumont (in French), Assemblée nationale, retrieved 2017-10-28
- Reconstitution des Matricules (in French), Legion of Honour, 4 February 1872, retrieved 2017-10-28 – via Leonore: Ministry of Culture
- Robert, Adolphefirst2=Gaston; Cougny (1889), "Dumont (Pierre François)", Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889 (in French), retrieved 2017-10-28
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Smith, Michael Stephen (2006), The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800–1930, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-01939-3, retrieved 2017-07-07