Pierre François Dumont (12 January 1789 – 27 July 1864) was a French industrialist involved in mining and iron making in the Nord department.
[4] Around 1824 Dumont et Cie was founded "to exploit the first establishments of forges and rolling mills of Valenciennes".
[5] Dumont founded the factories at Ferrière-la-Grande in 1830, the first coke-fired blast furnaces in the north of France to produce and mould pig-iron from the local minerals.
[5] The Société Serret, Lelièvre et Cie was constituted in 1834 to build and run the Forges de Denain.
[9] Talabot combined the Forges et Laminoirs d'Anzin with the Serret, Lelièvre, Dumont et Cie company of Denain to form the Société des hauts-fourneaux et des forges de Denain et Anzin, the largest metallurgical company in the Nord Department.
The line was built on land acquired by Dumont or expropriated on the grounds of public utility.
[2] At first he sat with the center left, but then joined the dynastic opposition led by Odilon Barrot.