Jean-Charles Alphand

Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, born in 1817 and died in 1891, interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery (division 66), was a French Engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads. Under Napoléon III, Alphand participated in the renovation of Paris directed by Baron Haussmann between 1852 and 1870, in the company of another engineer Eugène Belgrand and the landscape architect Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps. Jean-Charles Alphand's notable accomplishments inclu... more

Date of birth:

  • 1817

Date of death:

  • 1891 (age 74 years)

Profession:

Also known as:

  • Adolphe Alphand

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