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Jean-Jacques Émile Cheysson, 1836-1910.
French engineer-economist from the École des Ponts et Chaussées.
Born in Nîmes, Émile Cheysson was educated at the École Polytechnique
and subsequently the École des Ponts et Chaussées (EPC).
In 1859, Cheysson moved to Rheims, working was an engineer on a variety
of projects, such as the Aisne-to-Marne canal, the Épernay waterworks
and the Rheims-to-Châlons railway. He subsequently moved back to Paris,
and was appointed to oversee the machinery at the Paris Exposition
universelle of 1867. In 1868, Cheysson became a professor of
adminstrative literature at his alma mater, the EPC.
During the 1870-71 siege of Paris, Cheysson was put in charge of
securing the distribution of flour in the city. After the war, Cheysson
worked a series of jobs, e.g. factory manager in the industrial town of
Creusot (1871-74), engineer at Seine navigation (1874-77), and director
of maps and plans at the French Ministry of public works (1877-84)
In 1882, Cheysson was appointed professor of political and social
economy at the École libre des sciences politiques and, from 1884,
professor of industrial economy at the École des mines.
Cheysson wrote wide-ranging works on economics, emphasizing randomness
and location of industrial activity. He was also a disciple of the
engineer and Christian
socialist,
Frederic Le Play.
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