Eugène Freyssinet (1879-1962)
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Eugène Freyssinet was born in the Corrèze region and went to school in Paris, at the Lycée Chaptal, and later at Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées. After working for the government for nearly ten years, he was active in developing Entreprises Limousin, of which he became a partner. Freyssinet performed amazing technical feats, thanks to his love of innovation.
In 1929, he left Entreprises Limousin because the company was not interested in developing prestressed concrete, which Freyssinet had invented a year earlier. The technology was later developed with the support of Edme Campenon and STUP, a company created to market Freyssinet's invention, through which Freyssinet was able to fully express his talent.