Eugène Poubelle

René Eugène Poubelle ( born April 15, 1831 in Caen, † July 16, 1907 in Paris) was a French senior official. His last name has become in the French language name for the trash can.

Life

Poubelle, who was born into the bourgeois upper class of the city of Caen, graduated from law school with a doctorate. He then worked as a law lecturer at the Universities of Caen, Grenoble and Toulouse. Adolphe Thiers appointed him in April 1871 the prefect of the department of Charente. Later he served as Prefect of Isère, Corse, Doubs and - from 1883 - His works. The Seine at that time consisted of the city of Paris including the suburbs.

In order to improve the hygienic conditions in Paris, adopted Poubelle on November 24, 1883, a momentous decree which required the homeowners to provide their tenants sealable containers for their household waste disposal. Glass, porcelain shards and oyster shell were very closely separated are collected from other waste. This decree came in the Parisian population initially with resistance. The Paris city council approved a statement that prompted Poubelle minor changes in its decree on 22 February 1884. The final decree signed Poubelle on 7 March 1884. A further decree to improve hygiene, which required the homeowners to connect their building to the public sewer system, adopted Poubelle in 1894.

From 1896 to 1898 Poubelle was a French ambassador to the Holy See. He spent his retirement in the Aude department, the homeland of his wife Gabrielle Lades Gout. He was from 1898 to 1904 a member of the Conseil général. He died in 1907 and was buried in the cemetery Grèzes in Carcassonne.

Aftereffect

The name Poubelle has become the common name of the trash can in the French language. The prescribed Poubelle of waste container was referred to an article published in the newspaper Le Figaro article as boîte Poubelle Already on 16 January 1884. 1890, the name was poubelle recorded for a trash can on an addendum to the Grand Dictionnaire universel du Encyclopedia XIXe siècle.

After Eugène Poubelle has been named with a single house number in Paris about a 20 meter long road.