Claude Jouffroy D'Abbans Marquis De
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Claude Jouffroy D'Abbans Marquis De [1]
Is claimed by the French as the first inventor of the steamboat; he made a paddle-steamer ply on the Rhône in 1783, but misfortunes due to the Revolution hindered his progress, till he was forestalled by Fulton on the Seine in 1803 (1751-1832).
