Paul Cottancin

Paul Cottancin was a French engineer and a pioneer in the use of reinforced brickwork and concrete. He is known for the church of SaintJeandeMontmartre in Paris, which he designed in collaboration with the architect Anatole de Baudot.

Paul Cottancin was born in Reims in 1865. He studied engineering at the cole centrale des arts et manufactures. He received a diploma from the cole Centrale in 1886, and filed his first patent in March 1889 for a type of metal frame for reinforced cement or other reinforced materials. He subsequently moved to England and then to Ireland. He worked as a contractor and a consultant, and also as engineer for his own structures. He filed a series of patents up to 1900 as he refined his reinforced concrete system.

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