Paul Decauville

He is the founder of a manufacturing company that bears his name (Decauville, established in 1875), producing industrial railways, locomotives, and cars.

This company, Comptoir d'outillage et de matériel à air comprimé (Commercial establishment for tools and compressed air equipment), survived until the late 1980s.

Another of his companies, Emidecau, specializing in hydraulic presses, still exist.

He was also Senator of Seine-et-Oise from 1890 to 1900,[2] member of the Board of Customs, Secretary from 1897 to 1899.

After leaving Paris, Paul Decauville served as mayor of the town of Saint-Léger (Manche).