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.

* Pierre-Paul Riquet ( 1609 or 1604 – 1680 ), engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi

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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.

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He returned from the trip and sought out Pierre-Paul Riquet as a patron.

In France, he is a symbol of Christian religious intolerance, along with Jean Calas and Pierre-Paul Sirven, all championed by Voltaire.

In France, he is a symbol of Christian religious intolerance, along with Jean-François de la Barre and Pierre-Paul Sirven.

On Peuple Souverain, Captain Pierre-Paul Raccord was badly wounded and ordered his ship's anchor cable cut in an effort to escape the bombardment.

The term " stigmergy " was introduced by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to refer to termite behavior.

At the time, Pierre-Paul de La Grandière, colonial governor of Cochinchina, was carrying out plans to expand French rule over the whole of Vietnam and viewed Cambodia as a buffer between French possessions in Vietnam and Siam.

In 1884 he was appointed to command the army occupying Tunis, but was recalled owing to his differences of opinion with Pierre-Paul Cambon, the political resident.

Pierre-Paul Schweitzer was the International Monetary Fund ( IMF )' s fourth Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board, serving from 1963 to 1973.

Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon ( April 4, 1758 – February 16, 1823 ) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits.

Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon was born in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire.

* The Cradle of the King of Rome was commissioned by the city of Paris as a gift to Napoleon and his wife Empress Marie-Louise, on the birth of their son Napoleon II ( it was built by Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon ( 1758 – 1813 ), Henri-Victor Roguier ( 1758-after 1830 ), Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot ( 1763 – 1850 ) and Pierre-Philippe Thomire ( 1751 – 1843 ).

Pierre-Paul Guérin de Tencin ( Grenoble, 22 August 1679-2 March 1758 ), French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyon, and a cardinal.

* Notable draftsmen of the 19th century include Paul Cézanne, Aubrey Beardsley, Jacques Louis David, Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon, Edgar Degas, Théodore Géricault, Francisco Goya, Jean Ingres, Odilon Redon, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Honoré Daumier, and Vincent van Gogh.

Between 1851 and 1880, artists who visited the Louvre copied Mona Lisa roughly half as many times as certain works by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Antonio da Correggio, Paolo Veronese, Titian, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon.

Pierre-Paul Schweitzer died on January 2, 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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The young Géricault had painted copies of work by Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon ( 1758 – 1823 ), whose " thunderously tragic pictures " include his masterpiece, Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime, where oppressive darkness and the compositional base of a naked, sprawled corpse obviously influenced Géricault's painting.

Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon.

In the 1760s, a few years after the famous Calas Affair in Toulouse, Castres made the headlines nationwide: Pierre-Paul Sirven and his wife, both Protestants, were wrongly accused of having murdered their daughter in order to prevent her from converting to Catholicism.

The tiny pictures painted by the van Blarenberghe family are by many persons grouped as miniatures, and some of the later French artists, as Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon and Constance Meyer, executed miniature portraits, while others whose names might be mentioned were Joseph Werner ( 1637 – 1710 ), Rosalba Carriera ( 1675 – 1757 ), Pasquier, Carlo Marsigli, Garriot, Sicardi and Festa.