{"id":280,"date":"2024-10-29T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2024-10-29T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:26:25","slug":"sanson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/?page_id=280","title":{"rendered":"Sanson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Nicolas-Antoine Sanson (Paris, 7 December 1756 \u2013 Passy, 29 October 1824)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Son of a trader from Paris, he studied at Jean-Jacques Bachelier\u2019s \u00c9cole Royale Gratuite de Dessin. He was a teacher of architecture and fortification at the \u00c9cole de Sor\u00e8ze from 1778 to 1793. He then embarked on a military career in the engineering corps, becoming a brigadier and commander-in-chief of the engineering corps in Egypt. He became Director of the General War Depot in 1802. He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1807 and made a count of the Empire in 1808. He was taken prisoner in Russia in 1812 and came back in 1814, when he was made a knight of Saint-Louis. He was a commander of the Legion of Honour as of 1804 (Cf. Birembaut, Arthur. 1986. Les \u00e9coles gratuites de dessin, in <em>Enseignement et diffusion des sciences en France<\/em>, ed. Ren\u00e9 Taton. Paris: Hermann (orig. ed. 1964): 460).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas-Antoine Sanson (Paris, 7 December 1756 \u2013 Passy, 29 October 1824) Son of a trader from Paris, he studied at Jean-Jacques Bachelier\u2019s \u00c9cole Royale Gratuite de Dessin. He was a teacher of architecture and fortification at the \u00c9cole de Sor\u00e8ze from 1778 to 1793. He then embarked on a military career in the engineering corps, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions\/282"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}