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.

Riquet became wealthy and was given permission by the King to levy his own taxes.

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.

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.

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.

* 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 )

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.

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

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.

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

Andréossy continued to work at the canal and serve the family of Riquet until he died in Castelnaudary on 3 June 1688.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Riquet is a station of the Paris Métro.

`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.

But with the renewal of interference in 1954 ( as with its beginning in 1835 ), the improvement was impaired.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.

`` I thought the entire report was going to be confidential from beginning to end.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

His gray hair was thin, his face beginning to attract a swarm of wrinkles.

Greece was one of the highlights of our trip, but beginning in Greece and continuing around the world throughout Southeast Asia the treatment of animals was horrifying, ranging from callous indifference to active cruelty.

But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.

There was a finality in the rhythm of the prayer -- it was the end of a life, the end of hope, and the wondering if there would ever be another beginning.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

His sandy hair was already beginning to thin and recede at the sides, and Abel looked quickly away.

He was beginning to see he was too mad to sleep.