Eugène Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (29 March 1800 – 26 June 1859), second Comte de Richemont, was a French colonial administrator and inventor.

Life

Eugène Panon Desbassayns de Richemont was born on 29 March 1800 in Paris. His father was Philippe Panon-Desbassayns de Richemont, Comte Desbassayns de Richemont, and his mother was Jeanne-Eglée Fulcrande Mourgue. He married Athénaïs-Claire-Joséphine-Grace on June 10, 1829 in Paris. Their children were Jeanne Mathilde (1830-1832), Alexandre Pierre Philippe, third count of Richemont (1833-1912), Edgard Philippe (1835-1914), Naïs Jeanne Modeste Eugénie (1839-1878) and Jeanne Joséphine Grâce Céline Marie (1846-1913). Eugène Desbassayns de Richemont was Governor General of

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between 1826 and 1828. He was the founder of the

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(Collège Royal) on 26 October 1826. In 1839, he donated 15,386 francs for the foundation of a leper colony near Coconut Island. The hospital was completed in 1844, and still exists. He was the inventor of a method of welding with lead, and of a type of fertilizer. Desbassayns de Richemont died on 26 June 1859 in Paris.

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* Governors of French India

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People of the Bourbon Restoration 1800 births 1859 deaths Civil servants from Paris Nobility from Paris {{France-noble-stub