What is Canal de Saint-Quentin?
{{Infobox canal |name=Canal de Saint-Quentin |image= Canal de St-Quentin écluse Noyelles.JPG |image_caption= Lock Noyelles-sur-Escaut on Canal Saint-Quentin |canal_length= {{convert|92.5|km|mi|abbr=on}} |lock_length= |lock_width= |max_boat_length={{convert|38.50|m|ft|abbr=on}} |max_boat_beam={{convert|5.05|m|ft|abbr=on}} |min_boat_draft= {{convert|2.20|m|ft|abbr=on}} |min_boat_air_draft= {{convert|3.50|m|ft|abbr=on}} |original_num_locks= |current_num_locks=35 |min_elev= |max_elev= |total_rise=43 m |status= Open |navigation_authority= |former_names= Canal Crozat or Canal de Picardie between Chauny and Saint-Simon, in 1738 |present_owner=Voies Navigables de France |original_owner= |engineer= Original engineer named Devicq in 1727. Died in 1742. |other_engineer= Revised plan by Laurent de Lyonne. Work began in 1768. |date_approved= |date_began= |date_use= |date_completed=1810 |date_extended= |date_closed= |date_restored= |start_point= Canalised Escaut River (Scheldt) in Cambrai |end_point= Chauny |begin_coord= {{coord|50.17646|N|3.22173|E|scale:5000}} |end_coord= {{coord|49.60814|N|3.22526|E|scale:5000}} |branch= |branch_of= |connects_to = * [[Canal latéral à l'Oise]] * [[Canal de l'Oise à l'Aisne]] * [[Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise]] * Canalised [[Escaut River]] }} The '''Canal de Saint-Quentin''' is a [[canal]] in northern [[France]]. It connects the canalised river [[Scheldt|Escaut]] in [[Cambrai]] to the [[Canal latéral à l'Oise]] and [[Canal de l'Oise à l'Aisne]] in [[Chauny]]. The first part was built between Chauny and [[Saint-Simon, Aisne|Saint-Simon]] in 1738. [[Napoleon]] opened the second part in April 1810. <ref>{{cite book | last = McKnight | first = Hugh | title = Cruising French Waterways, 4th Edition | publisher = Sheridan House | year = 2005 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/cruisingfrenchwa00mckn/page/16 16, 37–42] | isbn = 978-1-57409-087-1 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/cruisingfrenchwa00mckn/page/16 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Catego