Edmond Huet

Edmond Huet (1827-1906) was a director of the Paris city council's works department at the end of the 19th century. A graduate of École polytechnique, he proposed several schemes for the introduction of a mass rapid transit system for the city and eventually worked closely with Fulgence Bienvenüe on the scheme to build the Paris Metro, which opened in 1900.{{cite news|url=http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://paris-21.com/paris-capitale-internationale/paris-histoire/le-paris-contemporain/metro-de-paris.html&ei=ajIUS_SHMMyKnQeK8s22DA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBsQ7gEwBThG&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Edmond%2BHuet%2522%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D70|title=Fulgence Bienvenue - Father of the Paris Metro (translated)|date=3 March 2009|publisher=Paris-21|accessdate=30 November 2009|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010712/http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http%3A%2F%2Fparis-21.com%2Fparis-capitale-internationale%2Fparis-histoire%2Fle-paris-contemporain%2Fmetro-de-paris.html&ei=ajIUS_SHMMyKnQeK8s22DA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBsQ7gEwBThG&prev=%2Fsearch%3Fq%3D%22Edmond+Huet%22&hl=en&sa=N&start=70|url-status=dead}}

Huet became the eleventh president (after Henry Louis Le Châtelier) of the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale in 1905 and was succeeded by Édouard Gruner in 1907.