The Canal du Midi was built by Pierre-Paul Riquet.

In 1662, Pierre-Paul Riquet, a rich tax-farmer in the Languedoc region, who knew the region intimately, believed he could solve the problem, but he first had to persuade Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister of Louis XIV, which he did through his friendship with the Archbishop of Toulouse.

Around 1665, Verro moved to the region of Toulouse where he was commissioned to decorate the Château Bonrepos, the property of Pierre-Paul Riquet, promoter of the Canal du Midi.

The park connects the station with the allées Paul Riquet where a large bronze statue by David d ' Angers celebrates the creator of the Canal du Midi, Pierre-Paul Riquet.

Portrait of Pierre-Paul Riquet

A statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse

Pierre-Paul Riquet ( June 29, 1609 ( some sources say 1604 ) – October 4, 1680 ) was the engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi.

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It was named after French engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet ( born Béziers, 1609 ; died Toulouse, 1680 ), who conceived and carried out the construction of the Canal du Midi from 1666.

Not all fermiers-généraux constrained their viewpoint to their own enrichment: Pierre-Paul Riquet, appointed collector in Roussillon-Languedoc in 1630, employed his fortune as the canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi that links the southern coast of France to Toulouse to link to the canal / river system that ran across to the Bay of Biscay, one of the great engineering feats of the 17th century.

Pierre-Paul Riquet began to organise the construction of the 240 km-long Canal du Midi in France in 1665 and it was opened in 1681.

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Pierre Paul Riquet ( 1604 – 1680 ) planned and constructed the Canal du Midi under Colbert's patronage.

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It eventually cost over 15 million livres, of which nearly two million came from Riquet himself, leaving him with huge debts, and he died in 1680, just months before the Canal was opened.

* June 29-Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder ( died 1680 )