Léon Eyrolles

Léon Eyrolles ( born December 14, 1861 in Tulle, † December 3, 1945 in Cachan? ) Was a French politician and entrepreneur. He founded in 1891 the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics later du Bâtiment et de l'Industrie ( ESTP ) and beside the Publisher Editions Eyrolles also a library ( Librairie Eyrolles ), which specializes in issues of professional higher education.

Eyrolles recognized his teaching skills by helping his comrades, develop professionally. In 1902 he bought in Cachan, a place near Paris, a large area on which it training centers, laboratories, and a boarding school built later. From this school of architecture at the École Spéciale the still private Travaux Publics, a Grande École, today engineers, engineers for building equipment and surveyors are trained in the developed.

Since 1924 was Eyrolles alderman of Cachan and mayor of the municipality from 1929 to 1944, and thus in his last tenure oldest mayor of the Department Seine.