{"id":12938,"date":"2023-11-28T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T09:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letrainjaune.fr\/decouvrir-le-train-jaune\/vie-du-train\/the-characters-of-the-line\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T09:36:50","slug":"the-characters-of-the-line","status":"publish","type":"actualite","link":"https:\/\/letrainjaune.fr\/en\/discover-the-train-jaune\/life-of-the-train\/the-characters-of-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Carnets du Train Jaune – The characters of the line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With this new event highlighting the” Les carnets du Train Jaune ” collection, the Parc Naturel R\u00e9gional des Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es Catalanes offers a retrospective, a journey back in time through the construction of the Yellow Train line and its history. This collection is the result of a collaboration between the Parc Naturel R\u00e9gional des Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es Catalanes and historians Pierre Cazenove and Jean-Louis Blanchon, co-published with Editions Tala\u00efa.<\/p>\n\n

Emmanuel BROUSSE <\/h2>\n\n
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Emmanuel BROUSSE © DR. <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Born in Perpignan on 23 August 1866, General Councillor for the Canton of Saillagouse from 1895 to 1926, Member of Parliament from 1906 to 1924, Under-Secretary of State for Finance from 1920 to 1921, died in Paris on 17 November 1926. A monument (” Le ministre mort pauvre… “, The minister who died poor<\/em>) pays tribute to him at the entrance to Mont-Louis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Jules LAX<\/h2>\n\n
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Jules LAX © Coll. Marc Hernandez-Gruel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Born in Saint-\u00c9tienne in 1842, died in 1925, he was a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and a \u201cPonts et Chauss\u00e9es\u201d engineer who supervised all construction work on the Cerdanya railway line.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Jean Raoul PAUL<\/h2>\n\n
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Jean Raoul PAUL© D.R.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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1869 – 1960. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and director of the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Midi, it was he who made the decisive choices for constructing the Cerdanya line, in terms of equipment, track and power generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was one of the main architects of Font-Romeu’s tourism development, through Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Chemins de fer et h\u00f4tels de montagne aux Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, <\/em>a subsidiary of Compagnie du Midi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charles DE FREYCINET<\/h2>\n\n
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Charles DE FREYCINET© D.R.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Born in Foix in 1828. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, he was Chief Operating Officer of the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Midi from 1856 to 1861. Under the Third Republic and various governments, he was Minister of Public Works from 1877 to 1879 (he launched his famous plan to reorganise waterways and rail transport), Minister of Foreign Affairs, President of the Council, Minister of War, candidate for the presidency of the Republic in 1887, member of the Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences, member of the Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise. He died in Paris in 1923.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Albert GISCLARD<\/h2>\n\n
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Albert Gisclard © Arch. Catherine Gisclard <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Born in N\u00eemes in 1844, graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, commander in the Military Engineers, pioneer of cable-stayed bridges, he died in an accident on 31 October 1909 during tests for the La Cassagne rigid suspension bridge, which he designed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Paul S\u00c9JOURN\u00c9 <\/h2>\n\n
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Paul SEJOURNE© Coll. Pierre Cazenove <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Born 1851 in Orl\u00e9ans, died 1939 in Paris. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, \u201cPonts et Chauss\u00e9es\u201d engineer, member of the Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences, designer of the Fontp\u00e9drouse viaduct.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

While Albert Gisclard, Emmanuel Brousse and Jules Lax were fittingly honoured by the local population and authorities, curiously, Paul S\u00e9journ\u00e9, in the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Orientales department (66), has no monument, stele or statue to honour his memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2557,"template":"","actualite_category":[315],"class_list":["post-12938","actualite","type-actualite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","actualite_category-back-in-time"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLes Carnets du Train Jaune - The characters of the line - Let\u2019s Get on the Yellow Train<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/letrainjaune.fr\/en\/discover-the-train-jaune\/life-of-the-train\/the-characters-of-the-line\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Les Carnets du Train Jaune - The characters of the line - Let\u2019s Get on the Yellow Train\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With this new event highlighting the” Les carnets du Train Jaune ” collection, the Parc Naturel R\u00e9gional des Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es Catalanes offers a retrospective, a journey back in time through the construction of the Yellow Train line and its history. 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