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2005-01-26 Nearly a Quarter of a Million Chevrolets Have Been Assembled in Europe
The fine-sounding French name 'Chevrolet' betrays the European roots of the brand. But is was not only the man himself - Louis Chevrolet (1878 - 1941) ...
2004-10-28 The man behind Chevrolet came from Switzerland
On Christmas Day 1878, a boy was born in the Swiss town of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Jura mountains who was destined to change the world of the automobile for ever. His name was Louis Chevrolet. At the end of 1887, when Louis was just nine years old, the Chevrolets moved to Beaune in France with their five children ...
2004-10-28 The life of an automobile pioneer
Louis Chevrolet is born in the Swiss town La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Jura mountains, the son of a watchmaker, Joseph Félicien, and Marie Anne Angeline Chevrolet. He spends his early childhood in the Jura villages of Bonfol and Beurnevésin. Louis Chevrolet is one of seven children ...