About Pierre Vigier
Lived 1760 – 1817 (aged 56–57). Pierre Vigier was a French jurist.
The Vigier Baths, across the Seine, seen from Quai Voltaire; engraving by Jean-Henry Marlet after Adrien Auger. Pierre Vigier (1760 in Cassaniouze (Cantal) – 19 September 1817, in Savigny-sur-Orge) was a French magistrate.
Life Vigier is perhaps best known for managing several public baths on the banks of the Seine (the "Bains Vigier"). The first one opened in 1791.
Vigier was a public prosecutor at Parlement until the French Revolution, when he shifted to a successful career in the business of thermal baths (in French baigneur-étuviste). The Bains Vigier on an early nineteenth century color plate.
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French jurist (1760-1817)
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Pierre Vigier was born in 1760.
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Pierre Vigier died on 19 September 1817 in Savigny-sur-Orge.
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Pierre Vigier was a jurist.
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