QUINETTE

FRANCE (see also List of Individuals)

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19.8.1838 Soissons/F - 8.12.1908 Paris/F

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Emile Quinette de Rochemont originated from an old French family. He was from 1862 an engineer at the port of Le Havre after having gone through standard education at Ecole Polytechnique and at Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées ENPC. There he took charge of the canal, the port structures and the littoral port surroundings until 1879. He was in 1892 appointed professor of harbor engineering and maritime works at ENPC. His main concept was that these works were useless when being executed with too great care because the water would destroy them within a short time. From 1879, Quinette was a chief engineer in Valenciennes and there executed works on the Escaut and the Meuse Rivers in Northern France. In the 1880s, he added to the Canal de Nord-Est running towards Belgium, a prime waterway for the industry.

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Quinette is known for his Lecture notes on maritime works held at ENPC. In 1874, he also contributed a paper on the sea currents at the delta of the Seine River. In 1888 he extensively described the works conducted for the improvements of the habor of Le Havre. His three volumes on the harbors along the Atlantic Ocean prepared from 1898 to 1904 include a description of the ports of Canada and the United States. At the end of his career, Quinette headed the French National Committee during the International Navigation Congress in Milan, in 1905. He had collaborated for years with his friend Paul Mengin-Lecreulx (1837-1909) and with Louis Fargue (1827-1910), the exponent of the French experts in river engineering.

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_{Ecole Polytechnique (1995). Quinette, Emile. Thalès: Paris. CD-Rom. P}

_{Joly, G. de (1909). Notice sur la vie et les travaux du Baron Quinette de Rochemont. Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 79(3): 7-23.}

_{Quinette, E.-T. de Rochemont (1874). Régime des courants et des marées à l'embouchure de la Seine: Régime actuel, régime ancien, des causes des changements survenus. Le Havre.}

_{Quinette, E.-T. de Rochemeont (1875). Ports maritimes de la France: Notice sur le port d'Harfleur. Imprimerie Nationale: Paris.}

_{Quinette, E.-T. de Rochemont (1888). De l'amélioration du port du Havre et des passes de la basse Seine. Chaix: Paris.}

_{Quinette, E.-T. de Rochemont, Desprez, H. (1900). Cours de Travaux maritimes professé à l'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées. Béranger: Paris.}

_{Quinette, E.-T. de Rochemont (1904). Les ports maritimes de l'Amérique du Nord sur l'Atlantique. Dunod: Paris.}