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name:Roverea, Isaac Gamaliel de
also known as:
domesticGenêve
lived in1695-1766
job:engineer, surveyor
Engineered the redirection of the Vieze river in Monthey (Wallis, Valais) to cut directly across the Chateau-Vieux hill insead of flowing around it, thereby putting an end to the flooding that the town was subjected to, in particular around 1726 when the town was devastated by the spring floods of the Vieze.




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