Jean Boudriot
Jean Pierre Paul Boudriot, (20 March 1921 in Dijon — 22 February 2015 in Paris) was a French naval architect and notable historian of weaponry and naval engineering.
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| Born | Jean Pierre Paul Boudriot  20 April 1921 Dijon |
| Died | 19 February 2015 (aged 93) 16th arrondissement of Paris |
Bourdiot was one on the foremost instigators of the renaissance of naval archaeology and of arsenal modelism. He notably authored a 4-volume opus on 74-guns, Le vaisseau de 74 canons.
Biography
Career
Born to a family of architects, Jean Boudriot started studying architecture.[1]
In 1942, he started studying at Beaux-Arts, where he met his wife.
In 1943, he volunteered to work on a farm in Bourgogne to avoid STO forced work in Germany, and later in a schiste mine near Autun until May 1944.
After achieving an architecture diploma in 1947, Boudriot started working with three of his Beaux-Arts friends. He notably worked with Pierre Lejeune in Paris.
Notes and references
- P. Decencière's interview in Neptunia No. 254