Adolphe Garrigou
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Adolphe Garrigou | |
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| Born | January 10, 1802 Tarascon-sur-Ariège, France |
| Died | August 23, 1893 (aged 91) Tarascon-sur-Ariège, France |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, speleologist |
| Children | Félix Garrigou |
Adolphe Garrigou (January 10, 1802, in Tarascon-sur-Ariège, France – August 23, 1893, Tarascon-sur-Ariège, France) was a French industrialist, politician, journalist, and writer, particularly renowned for his contributions to the field of archaeology.[1]
Born in 1802 in Tarascon-sur-Ariège, into a republican family with involvement in the 1789 Revolution, Adolphe Garrigou joined the secret society of the Carbonari around 1819. Inducted in 1822 into the Lombrives cave, he rose to lead the faction known as Les Compagnons du Sabarthez. The 1848 revolution elevated him to the position of mayor of Tarascon and then as administrator of the Ariège department.[2] He founded the metallurgical factories Saint-Antoine in Saint-Paul-de-Jarrat, equipped with blast furnaces, providing significant resources to pursue his ventures.[3]
Together with his brother-in-law, the polytechnician and historian Léo Lamarque[4] (1808–1849), Adolphe Garrigou was the builder in 1836 of the "Pont du Diable" in Montoulieu.[5] Léo Lamarque, who collaborated with the mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet, experimented there with a hydraulic wheel of his invention. Adolphe Garrigou died in 1893.[1] His library and archives were dispersed and lost. During his later years, he greatly influenced his young neighbor Antonin Gadal, who wrote his biography.[2]
His son, Joseph Louis Félix Garrigou, born on September 16, 1835, in Tarascon-sur-Ariège, and deceased on March 18, 1920, was a physician, prehistorian, spelunker, and hydrologist. He continued some of his father's research, notably exploring the Lombrives cave.
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