Daniel-Charles Trudaine

Daniel-Charles Trudaine , born with Paris the January 3rd 1703 and dead the January 19th 1769, is a French administrator and civil engineer. It is one of the creators of the French highway network.

Biography

Wire of Charles Trudaine, Provost of the merchants of Paris, it is to advise with the Parlement of Paris, then intendant of Auvergne of 1730 with 1734. In 1743, it is named honorary member of the royal Académie of sciences and, the following year, directing of the Assemblée of the general inspectors of the Highways Departments, function which it occupies until his death in 1769. It founds the National school of the Highways Departments in 1747, with at its head Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, engineer of the Généralité of Alençon.

As an administrator of the Highways Departments, Daniel Trudaine, lit economist, make carry out several thousands of kilometers of royal roads (current trunk roads) connecting Paris to the borders and the main ports of sea. This highway network is then regarded as one of best of Europe: roads as rectilinear as possible, traced “of bell-tower with bell-tower”, of a width of 60 feet, is 19,40 meters, broadsides of trees provided by the royal seedbeds and of ditches maintained by the residents.

His/her son, Jean-Charles-Philibert Trudaine de Montigny, succeeds to him the head of the Parliament of the general inspectors of the Highways Departments.

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Daniel-Charles Trudaine on the site of the ministry for the culture

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