Hugues Cosnier (French pronunciation: [yg konje]) was a French engineer who conceived of the Briare Canal[1][2] who was born in Tours, 1573, and died in 1629, in Paris.
It would go from Briare to Montargis and then continue to the Seine via the Loing River.
He abandoned the project in 1610 with the death of Henri IV.
[2][1] Also in 1603, he received a grant to establish silkworm breeding, sericulture, in Poitou.
[2] In 1618, his idea of encircling Paris with canals was accepted, but was never constructed.