Pierre Vigier

Pierre Vigier (1760 in Cassaniouze (Cantal) – 19 September 1817, in Savigny-sur-Orge) was a French magistrate.

The Vigier Baths, across the Seine, seen from Quai Voltaire; engraving by Jean-Henry Marlet after Adrien Auger.

Life

Vigier is perhaps best known for managing several public baths on the banks of the Seine (the "Bains Vigier"). The first one opened in 1791.^[1][2]

Vigier was a public prosecutor at Parlement until the French Revolution, when he shifted to a successful career in the business of thermal baths (in French baigneur-étuviste).^[3]

The Bains Vigier on an early nineteenth century color plate.