Joseph-Michel Dutens (15 October 1765 in

Tours Tours ( ; ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabita ...

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– 6 August 1848) was a French

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

and

political economist Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies poli ...

. He was a nephew of

Louis Dutens Louis Dutens (15 January 173023 May 1812) was a French writer born in Tours, of Protestant parents, who lived most of his life in Britain or in British service on the continent. He went to London, where his uncle was a jeweller, and there obtai ...

. He worked as a designer on the La Tranchasse Canal Bridge, and as an engineer on the

Berry Canal The Canal de Berry () is a disused canal in France which links the Canal latéral à la Loire at Marseilles-lès-Aubigny with the Cher (river), Cher at Noyers-sur-Cher, Noyers rejoining the Loire near Tours. With a branch from Montluçon it provi ...

in 1841.Jean-Yves Hugoniot, Le canal du Duc de Berry, historique et généralités, dans Bulletin d'information du département du Cher, n° 154, août 1979, p. 29-33

Works

* ''Philosophie de l'économle politique'' (Paris 1835, 2 volumes)

References

French civil engineers 1765 births 1848 deaths {{France-engineer-stub