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    Henri Chapron (30 December 1886 - 14 May 1978) was a prominent French automobile coachbuilder. His carrosserie, created in 1919, was located in the Paris...
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    The production version was developed together with Chapron. The manufacture was passed to Henri Chapron, who had already been converting small numbers of...
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    to use the new frontal aspect although coachbuilders Joseph Figoni, Henri Chapron, Jacques Saoutchik, and Marcel Pourtout, obtained authorized artistic...
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    chassis form and received bodywork from various coachbuilders, mainly Henri Chapron, but also from Figoni, Saoutchik, Antem, and others. The company's own...
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  • a further booster for sales, Réard commissioned carbody specialist Henri Chapron to build an extravagant "road yacht" by converting a Packard V8 car...
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    coachbuilder Henri Chapron displayed a Murena with a removable roof panel at the 1982 Paris Motor Show. The car was called the Murena Chapron Chimère. In...
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    1957 Milan Triennale Exposition, and inspired French coach builder Henri Chapron, who produced coupé and cabriolet versions of the DS. In 1961, the French...
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    Marcel Pourtout, Frères Dubois, Jacques Saoutchik, Marius Franay, Henri Chapron, Faget-Varnay, Antem, and others. Production of the 3.2-litre version...
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  • out by Heuliez Active Wheel as used in the Heuliez WILL concept car Henri Chapron also in France Karmann in Germany Magna Steyr in Austria Bertone and...
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    created their designs on the Type 135. For the Delahaye, most were bodied by Chapron, Labourdette, Franay, Saoutchik, Figoni et Falaschi, or Pennock.[citation...
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    short-wheelbase racing variant 1972 Citroën SM Frua concept Coachbuilder Henri Chapron from Levallois-Perret produced several very collectible variants of...
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    (chassis 60743), and 4074 (chassis 60744). The first two were bodied by Henri Chapron, one as a Dandy Series cabriolet, the other as an enclosed coach. The...
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    between the two automakers on 21 November 1961. The French coachbuilder, Henri Chapron, modified 1962 Rambler sedans to serve as presidential limousines for...
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    sported the license plate Crown 101. Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, had a special Landaulet created by Henri Chapron for his 1981 wedding. Other royal...
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  • Mulliner's price was too high and Silva eventually had the body built by Henri Chapron, with the work completed in July 1958. In 2008 the coachwork on this...
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    an eye-catching 'panoramic' rear window bodied by the coachbuilder Henri Chapron. For more than thirty years, each new Hotchkiss had represented a gentle...
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  • models, created for President Georges Pompidou by the coach-builder Henri Chapron. Based on the SM Opera, itself a special edition four-door coupé, these...
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    include Letourneur & Marchand and their subsidiary, Autobineau, Henri Chapron, Henri Labourdette, Marius Franay and, especially after the coming together...
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    October 1956 at the 43rd Paris Motor Show: one was exhibited on the Henri Chapron stand and the other on a small stand against the wall, positioned next...
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    drive. All ten cars made were fitted with bodies designed and built by Henri Chapron. All the cars mentioned previously were front-wheel-drive cars. Grégoire...
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    Lawrence's chassis, which was to be sent to French coach-builder Henri Chapron in Paris. Chapron was to build a full-sized maquette, or body-form, of the revised...
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    Concours d'élégance in May 1938, in a Delahaye cabriolet with bodywork by Henri Chapron. 1936 1936 Paris-Nice Critérium (L. Schell, first; R, Carrière, second)...
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  • and Carrosserie Pourtout. Finally, in 1956, Henri Chapron became the supplier of the coupé's body. Chapron developed a convertible version of the car the...
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  • Debré, physician (born 1882). 4 May – Henri Curiel, political activist, assassinated (born 1914). 14 May – Henri Chapron, automobile coachbuilder (born 1886)...
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    statut du guépard du Sahara (Acinonyx jubatus), Adrar des Iforas, Mali". In Chapron, G.; Moutou, F. (eds.). L'Etude et la conservation des carnivores. Paris...
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  • René Guénon, orientalist and philosopher (died 1951) 30 December – Henri Chapron, automobile coachbuilder (died 1978) Marie-Gabriel Tissot, Abbot of...
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    there of such companies as Clément-Bayard, Delage, and the coachbuilders Chapron and Faget & Varnet. Citroën purchased the Clément-Bayard factory and produced...
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  • 19 July – Michel Lévêque, diplomat and politician 7 October – Gilbert Chapron, boxer (died 2016) 17 October – Françoise Garner, soprano (died 2024) 22...
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  • (−75 kg) details Gennadi Schatkov  Soviet Union Ramón Tapia  Chile Gilbert Chapron  France Victor Zalazar  Argentina Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details James...
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  • to draw and plan vehicles. Jean, an admirer of great Parisian designers Chapron and Figoni, worked on honing his own skills by attending evening classes...
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