Charles August Machart — Wikipedia

Charles Auguste Mothart , born the November 24, 1808 In Amiens (Somme) and died on October 21, 1896 In Vesdun (Cher), is an engineer from bridges and roads.

According to his individual file kept in the national archives, his usual first name is Auguste. The son of Edme Firmin Auguste Machart and Marie Thérèse Victoire Grandin, both native of Amiens, Charles Auguste Machart belonged to an old family of notable Picards. His father was a lawyer in the court of appeal of Amiens, and his grandfather, Charles Jean Baptiste Edme Machart, lawyer and dean of the lawyers of the court of first instance of this same city.

In November 1827 , Auguste Machart entered the École Polytechnique and, two years later, at the School of Ponts et Chaussées. THE first ^is May 1832 He held his first position in Saint-Amand-Montrond (Cher), at the Berry Canal, but he quickly found his native department as a borough engineer, first in Péronne (1833-1835), then in Amiens (1835- 1842). From 1842 to 1847, he was assigned to the construction of the Paris railway line in Lille in the crossing of the Somme department.
After a brief stint at the service of the side canal at the Loire with residence in Nevers, Auguste Machart is attached to the service of the Berry Canal the first ^is December 1847 , at the Bourges residence, as a result of a permutation with his colleague Paul Mutrécy-Maréchal.

The July 8, 1848 , while retaining his duties at the Berry Canal, Auguste Machart is, by ministerial decision, “responsible, as an engineer taking office of chief engineer, of the senior management of the Sauldre Canal” whose work must begin incessantly, regularized situation August 28 of the same year, by a promotion to the rank of chief engineer. THE first ^is November 1848 , also by ministerial decision, he ceases to take care of the Berry canal to devote himself entirely to that of the Sauldre. The closure of the Sauldre workshops being now scheduled by the ministry, Auguste Machart is, in this perspective, replaced by Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (1809-1893), and “responsible for the special irrigation service, drying and factories in the department of Dear and studies and sanitation works in the parts of the Sologne included in the department of Loir-et-Cher and Loiret ”, from the first ^is January 1849 , with residence in Bourges. Bazaine having been recalled in Paris fine July 1849 , Auguste Machart is loaded from the first ^is August of the completion of the liquidation of the Sauldre workshops service.
Auguste Machart is named the July 3, 1850 in the hydraulic service of the Loiret, with residence in Orleans, while retaining his functions relating to “studies of Sologne”, and he abandons the first ^is August following the “Hydraulic Service of Cher”. THE July 5, 1852 , in accordance with the wish of the prefect of the Loiret, a ministerial decree reorganizes the service of Sologne created in 1848, and constitutes it definitively under the name of “Special Sologne Service” including the hydraulic service of the parts of the departments of Cher, Loiret and Loir-et-Cher relating to Sologne. Auguste Machart is placed at the head of this service, always with residence in Orleans. The resumption of studies and work of the Sauldre canal having been voted June 29, 1852 , it is now up to him to carry out this company, which will not end until 1868.

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The work of the SAULDRE canal completed, Auguste MACHART is appointed inspector general by imperial decree dated May 26, 1869 , with effect at first ^is June 1869 . He then resides in Paris, Boulevard Saint-Michel. He is replaced at the head of the Special Service of Sologne by Delacroix, his former assistant in this service for many years, then stationed in Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne), and which will die shortly after taking up his new functions.

Charles Auguste Machart was a member of several local learned companies (Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of the Somme Department, in Amiens, then Society of Agriculture, Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts d’Orléans). It also belonged to the Central Agricultural Committee of Sologne, from the foundation of this organization in 1859, until its death. His publications are limited to two brochures, only in the context of a controversy opened by Gabriel Landbarn of Viéville, one of his colleagues from the Organic Agricultural Society which disputed the usefulness of a channel intended for the tidal Sologne that the chief engineer in charge of studies had to defend. Auguste Machart was a field engineer for “practical knowledge for the study and conduct of major works” notes an Inspector General.

Auguste Machart had married, the July 21, 1835 , Cécile Amélie Yel (says Yel de la Cour). Six children were born from this marriage.

To his retirement, Auguste Machart withdrew into the property of his wife, the castle of the Court, in Vesdun (Cher), where he died the October 21, 1896 .

His sister Pauline Machart had married Eugène-Joseph de Gayffier ( d ) (° 1/9/1806 Roffiac or Allozier, Cantal – 4/10/1871 Paris, 9 ^{It is} At 6 rue Condorcet, declared on 5/10/1871, widower, religious ceremony in Saint-Vincent de Paul, buried in Amiens), x 1826, chief engineer of P&C, designer of rail networks in Spain and Portugal, director of The Parisian gas company, knight of L.H on 26/4/1844 and Notre-Dame de la Concegal du Portugal

Charles Auguste belongs to a family of ancient French bourgeoisie whose ancestry has been known since the end of the 15th century.

He married Cécile Amélie Yel belonging to a family today extinguished from the French nobility.

Almost all the information relating to the career of Charles Auguste Machart comes from his individual administrative file (administration of bridges and roads: Charles Auguste Machart, 24-11-1808; National Archives, F/14/2272/2). This file also contains family information that has been ignored here.
The collection of the Loiret almanac (years 1851 to 1870) provides some information on the special service of Sologne.

Additional additional sources:

• Ambroise Fourcy, History of the Polytechnic School , p. 475 (Promotion 1827).
• Édouard de Laage de Meux, M. de Saint-Venant and the special service of engineers of bridges and roads in Sologne , Orléns, Michau, 1892, p. 23.

• Almanach national, 1852 , p. 172 “Sologne. Sanitation and irrigation studies of Sologne “.
• Annals of the Central Agricultural Committee of Sologne (years 1859 to 1897).
• Universal historical directory, 1847 , p. 64, § Royal Order of the Legion of Honor (appointment to the rank of knight of the Legion of Honor June 12, 1847 ).
• Memoirs of the Society of Agriculture, Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts d’Orléans , t. XXIX, first ^is And 2 ^{It is} trim. 1889, p. 11.
• Religious week of the diocese of Bourges , November 14, 1896 , p. 896-897- ONCROLOGY: M. MACHART.

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• Christian Poitou, “The engineers of the Sauldre Canal (1848-1869)”, in The first Sauldre channel, Bulletin of the Archaeological and Historical Research Group of Sologne, Sologne and its past, 43 , t. 31, n° 2, avril- June 2009 , p. 55-64.
• Christian Poitou, “The Ateliers de la Sauldre ( July 1848 – April 1849 )”, In The first Sauldre channel, Bulletin of the Archaeological and Historical Research Group of Sologne, Sologne and its past, 43 , t. 31, n° 2, avril- June 2009 , p. 1-54.

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