Joseph-Michel Dutens (15 October 1765 in

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 ...

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– 6 August 1848) was a French

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

and political economist. He was a nephew of

Louis Dutens Louis Dutens (15 January 173023 May 1812) was a French writer born in Tours, of Protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a m ...

. He worked as a designer on the La Tranchasse Canal Bridge, and as an engineer on the Berry Canal in 1841.Jean-Yves Hugoniot, Le canal du Duc de Berry, historique et généralités, dans Bulletin d'information du département du Cher, n° 154, août 1979, p. 29-33

Works

* ''Philosophie de l'économle politique'' (Paris 1835, 2 volumes)

References

French civil engineers 1765 births 1848 deaths {{France-engineer-stub