François Clément Sauvage

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François Clément Sauvage was a French geologist and mining engineer. He was born in Sedan on 4 April 1814 and died in Paris on 11 November 1872.^[1]

Sauvage's name is one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower.^{[citation needed]}