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fjt_010168 - PONTS ET CHAUSSÉES / BRIDGES AND ROADS PONT DE TOMBLAINE n.d.
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : PONT DE TOMBLAINE
Date: n.d.
Metal : brass
Diameter : 22 mm
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PONT DE TOMBLAINE.
Obverse description : En trois lignes.
Reverse
Reverse legend : AB EN MONOGRAMME.
Commentary
Le pont de Tomblaine
Depuis 1540 environ, un bac assurait la traversée de Tomblaine à Nancy. Au début du XIXe siècle, celui-ci franchissait la rivière en amont d'une baignade fort prisée des Nancéiens. Le nombre restreint de ponts sur la Meurthe se faisant sentir, Monsieur le Baron Buquet, qui deviendra maire de Nancy sous le second Empire, entreprend à ses frais la construction du pont de Tomblaine. Les travaux commencent le 1er février 1842 et la première pierre est posée par Mlle Marie Buquet le 2 juillet 1842. Les travaux furent conduits par A.-F. Solet, entrepreneur à Nancy, et les ingénieurs J. Jaquiné et Charles Duhoux. Le pont est ouvert en octobre de la même année et sera à péage jusqu'en 1896, date à laquelle il est racheté par la ville de Nancy.
Notre jeton est certainement celui qui servait au péage de ce pont voir http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomblaine .
The Tomblaine Bridge Since around 1540, a ferry provided the crossing from Tomblaine to Nancy. At the beginning of the 19th century, it crossed the river upstream from a bathing spot very popular with the people of Nancy. The limited number of bridges over the Meurthe being felt, Mr. Baron Buquet, who would become mayor of Nancy under the Second Empire, undertook the construction of the Tomblaine Bridge at his own expense. Work began on February 1, 1842, and the first stone was laid by Miss Marie Buquet on July 2, 1842. The work was led by A.-F. Solet, a contractor in Nancy, and the engineers J. Jaquiné and Charles Duhoux. The bridge opened in October of the same year and was a toll bridge until 1896, when it was purchased by the city of Nancy. Our token is certainly the one used for the toll on this bridge. See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomblaine
Depuis 1540 environ, un bac assurait la traversée de Tomblaine à Nancy. Au début du XIXe siècle, celui-ci franchissait la rivière en amont d'une baignade fort prisée des Nancéiens. Le nombre restreint de ponts sur la Meurthe se faisant sentir, Monsieur le Baron Buquet, qui deviendra maire de Nancy sous le second Empire, entreprend à ses frais la construction du pont de Tomblaine. Les travaux commencent le 1er février 1842 et la première pierre est posée par Mlle Marie Buquet le 2 juillet 1842. Les travaux furent conduits par A.-F. Solet, entrepreneur à Nancy, et les ingénieurs J. Jaquiné et Charles Duhoux. Le pont est ouvert en octobre de la même année et sera à péage jusqu'en 1896, date à laquelle il est racheté par la ville de Nancy.
Notre jeton est certainement celui qui servait au péage de ce pont voir http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomblaine .
The Tomblaine Bridge Since around 1540, a ferry provided the crossing from Tomblaine to Nancy. At the beginning of the 19th century, it crossed the river upstream from a bathing spot very popular with the people of Nancy. The limited number of bridges over the Meurthe being felt, Mr. Baron Buquet, who would become mayor of Nancy under the Second Empire, undertook the construction of the Tomblaine Bridge at his own expense. Work began on February 1, 1842, and the first stone was laid by Miss Marie Buquet on July 2, 1842. The work was led by A.-F. Solet, a contractor in Nancy, and the engineers J. Jaquiné and Charles Duhoux. The bridge opened in October of the same year and was a toll bridge until 1896, when it was purchased by the city of Nancy. Our token is certainly the one used for the toll on this bridge. See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomblaine
Historical background
PONTS ET CHAUSSÉES / BRIDGES AND ROADS
The French Monarchy had long cherished the project of ensuring the construction of thoroughfares which usually fell within the competence of local authorities, provinces, lords or communities.. For essentially financial reasons, the project only really came to fruition in 1716 with the creation of a hierarchical corps, on the model of the corps of military engineers, responsible for the fortifications, which had been organized some twenty-five years earlier.. Initially, the corps des Ponts et Chaussées comprised an inspector general, an architect first engineer, three inspectors general and twenty-one engineers, who had to design and build roads and engineering structures with sub-engineers recruited by their care. The task entrusted to them corresponds to a significant shift in the priorities of the State. In 1716, Louis XIV had been dead for almost a year, leaving France exhausted from long years of war. Concerns of military grandeur are almost immediately followed by the pursuit of economic power which must be achieved by facilitating trade through more and safer transportation infrastructure.. Offering more ramified service possibilities than rivers and canals, roads will be the subject of repeated investments by the State, allowing bridge engineers to appear as the privileged servants of its economic plans.. Text taken from the excellent: http://www. enpc. fr/teachings/Picon/CorpsPC. html.
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