He collaborated with the engineer Georges Dufaud, who had studied metallurgy in Wales and in 1818 set up a forge using Welsh techniques at Trézy in the Nivernais.
[6] Over the ensuing 15 years Boiges, Dufaud and their partners developed Fourchambault into a major center of metallurgy.
[6] They bought ten blast furnaces in the region around Fourchambault and existing ironworks that included a sheet metal plant at Imphy and a nail factory at Cosne.
[8] In 1836 the brothers Adolphe and Eugène Schneider acquired the iron works at Le Creusot with investments by François Alexandre Seillière and Louis Boigues.
The Société Boigues & Cie soon began a major expansion to meet growing demand from railways.
[1] He sat in the left center, defended the Charter and voted against the ministry of Jules de Polignac.