Paul Borel and Lavalley were contractors of the Suez Canal Company who designed, built, and operated the dredging machines that finished excavation of the Suez Canal from 1864 to 1869 after the use of forced labor was disallowed.
10 Facts About Alexandre Lavalley
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Alexandre Lavalley finished his preparatory studies in Tours, entered the Ecole Polytechnique and left after studying military engineering in 1842.
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Alexandre Lavalley resigned his commission and spent a few years in England, where he became a mechanic and acquired practical knowledge about machinery.
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Alexandre Lavalley designed lighthouses on the Black Sea, created a tunnel boring machine in Lithuania, and created a machine to dredge ports in Russia.
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Paul Borel and Alexandre Lavalley were hired as subcontractors by the Suez Canal Company to finish the excavation of the Suez Canal.
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In 1881, the British railway entrepreneur Sir Edward Watkin and Alexandre Lavalley were in the Anglo-French Submarine Railway Company that conducted exploratory work on both sides of the English Channel.
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Alexandre Lavalley was elected on January 25,1885, as a Senator representing Calvados.
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Alexandre Lavalley sat in the left of the Senate, but voted with the majority for the new military law and for the colonial policies.
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Alexandre Lavalley was absent during the vote for the breakup of the French Crown Jewels.
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Finally, Alexandre Lavalley voted for the reestablishment of district elections, for a draft of the Lisbonne Law that would have restricted the freedom of the press, and against the procedure of the Senate against the general Georges Ernest Boulanger.