Edmond Huet was a director of the Paris

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 city council

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's works department at the end of the 19th century. A graduate of École polytechnique

École Polytechnique

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, he proposed several schemes for the introduction of a mass rapid transit

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 system for the city and eventually worked closely with Fulgence Bienvenue

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 on the scheme to build the Paris Metro

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, which opened in 1900.

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