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.[1][2]

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).[3]

The Bains Vigier on an early nineteenth century color plate.

Notes

  1. ↑ Engraving of the Baths during the Directoire.
  2. ↑ "Facts about Vigier's baths" (in French). Personal page. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Facts about Vigier and his son Achille Pierre FELIX" (in French). Municipality of Savigny. Retrieved 24 August 2015.


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