Lucien Arbel was a French draftsman who became a machinist and then an engineer. He started his own metalworking business and became a major industrialist. He was also a deputy and then a senator of France. His business was passed down to his sons and later evolved into Arbel Fauvet Rail.
Lucien Arbel was born onSeptember 1826 in SaintLupicin, Jura. He graduated from the cole des Arts et Mtiers dAix . Lucien Arbel worked as a draftsman in Paris, then as an engine fireman and machinist, then as a mine engineer in the mines at Tartaras near RivedeGier.
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