She bore ten children during her various liaisons, including Joseph de Riquet, first son of François-Joseph-Philippe, who became the seventeenth Prince of Chimay in 1843.

Andréossy supplied the technical expertise that Riquet lacked and became Riquet's right hand man throughout the construction of the canal.

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

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.

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.

On returning to France in 1802 he obtained a divorce from Thérésa ( who in 1805 married François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet ), and was left for some time without employment.

The impulsor of the Canal del Lanquedoc was Pierre Paul Riquet, Count of Caraman and great-grandfather of Joseph Riquet, also Count of Caraman and later Prince of Chimay and the last husband of Teresa Cabarrus Galabert.

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.

Paul Riquet was born in Béziers, Hérault, France.

As a youth, Riquet was only interested in mathematics and science.

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.

After a brief flirtation with Napoleon, she moved first to the powerful Paul Barras, whose former mistress was Napoleon's first wife Joséphine ; then to the millionaire speculator Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard ( with whom she had four children ); and finally, attempting to regain respectability and to get away from Paris, she married François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet, Comte de Caraman, on 22 August 1805-he had become the sixteenth Prince of Chimay after the death of his childless uncle in 1804.

Thérésa died in Chimay, where she was interred with François-Joseph de Riquet under the sacristy of the local church where a memorial stands to her memory.

François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet ( 21 September 1771-2 March 1843 ), comte de Caraman was the 16th Prince de Chimay from 24 July 1804 to 1843.

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.

Riquet was beginning his investigation into the possibility of building a canal across southern France from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

Fluent in French at an early age ( even before she could speak Romanian ), Marthe spent the first years of her marriage under the tutelage of her mother-in-law, Princess Valentine Bibesco ( née countess Riquet de Caraman-Chimay ), who saw to it that the extensive education in European history and literature Marthe already had was reinforced.

The specifications for the work were drawn up by the head of this commission and France's leading military engineer in that period, the Chevalier de Clerville, who remained a loyal ally of Riquet and partisan of the Canal du Midi until his death.

There are now over 40 aqueducts, but when created by Riquet, there were only three, the Répudre Aqueduct, Aiguille Aqueduct and Jouarres Aqueduct.

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.

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.

* October 4 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder ( b. c. 1640 )

* June 29 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder ( d. 1680 )

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

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.

To help in the design, Riquet is said to have constructed a miniature canal in the grounds of his house, Bonrepos, complete with locks, weirs, feeder channels and even a tunnel.

At the age of 63, Riquet started his great enterprise, sending his personal engineer, François Andreossy, and a local water expert, Pierre Roux, to the Montagne Noire to work on the water supply.

Riquet is the man responsible for building the 240-kilometre-long artificial waterway 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.

Planning, financing, and construction of the Canal du Midi completely absorbed Riquet from 1665 forward.

Riquet is a station of the Paris Métro.

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

Lucius became more wealthy despite his youth shortly after.

In the 1520s he returned to Regensburg as a wealthy man, and became a member of the city's council.

The area thrived during the Ottoman Empire, as the centre of opium production and Afyon became a wealthy city with the typical Ottoman urban mixture of Turks, Armenians and Greeks.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá soon became very popular in the penal colony and Myron Phelps a wealthy New York lawyer described how " a crowd of human beings ... Syrians, Arabs, Ethiopians, and many others ", all waited to talk and receive ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

He became wealthy publishing Poor Richard's Almanack and The Pennsylvania Gazette.

Perhaps because only the very wealthy could afford the pursuit, in Renaissance times coin collecting became known as the " Hobby of Kings.

With the restoration of firm central government, the empire became fabulously wealthy.

A well-known legend attached to the site concerns a wealthy hunter, Childe, who became lost in a snow storm and supposedly died there despite disembowelling his horse and climbing into its body for protection.

At the end of the 18th century it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the Summer by the sea.

After her husband's death, Marion Armstrong became extraordinarily wealthy as a result of successful FM patent litigation against RCA and other companies.

Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.

Feeling sympathy for the Japanese, Emmy reveals the truth behind the Futurians ' mission: In the future, Japan became very wealthy and its economy surpassed that of the United States, Russia and China-the Futurians in fact stole the time machine and plan to use King Ghidorah to alter the future by devastating or subjugating present-day Japan, thus preventing its future economic reign.

Although from a bourgeois family, after his degree in law Lavoisier became wealthy from a company set up to collect taxes for the Crown ; this allowed him to pursue experimental natural science as a hobby.

Thus Jacob's herds increased and he became very wealthy.

The new firm of Boulton and Watt was eventually highly successful and Watt became a wealthy man.

Later she became a local teacher in Louisiana and took up residence, with her children, at the home of a wealthy plantation owner.

During the early part of the 20th century, the interior central highlands were settled by British and other European farmers, who became wealthy farming coffee and tea.

Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Trier ( formerly in Prussian Rhineland, now called Rhineland-Palatinate ), Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians.

The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged from the peasantry and became wealthy following the Stolypin reform, which began in 1906.

Beirut became a prime location for institutions of international commerce and finance, as well as wealthy tourists, and enjoyed a reputation as the " Paris of the Middle East " until the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War.

Once wealthy from trade, the region became lost to modern history and was thought to be only a figment of mythical tales.

Once wealthy from trade, the region became lost to modern history and was thought to be only a figment of mythical tales.

He was released in 1299, became a wealthy merchant, married and had three children.

The company continued its activities and Marco soon became a wealthy merchant.