After Napoleon Bonaparte took sole power in France in 1799 with the coup d'état of Brumaire VIII and the war with Great Britain ended in 1802, the French mining inspector Albert Mathieu Favier presented Napoleon with the first plan for the construction of a tunnel under the English Channel. Horse-drawn carriages were to be able to travel through the tunnel, which was lit by gas lanterns, from France to England by day and night. Despite Napoleon's great desire for reform, the plan was not pursued; he probably feared the mass import of cheap British goods. Economic reasons in turn motivated Great Britain to declare war on France again shortly afterwards. As a result, Favier's plan was not presented to Napoleon's nephew Napoleon III again until 50 years later.
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