Jean Le Couteur
John Le Couteur was a notable French architect, a longtime associate of Paul Herb.
John Le Couteur was born in Brest, Brittany, onJune 1916, the son of a naval doctor. He had a talent for drawing and enrolled in the school of Georges Lefort in Rennes. In 1939 he joined the studio of Auguste Perret at the cole nationale suprieure des BeauxArts in Paris, but the outbreak of World War II interrupted his schooling. After being mobilized, he returned to the occupied zone and returned to the studio before joining a community of students from the BeauxArts in the abandoned village of Oppde in the Vaucluse. He returned to Paris in 1943, where he met Bernard Zehrfuss. He qualified as an architect in 1944, and became a friend of Zehrfusss friend Paul Herb.
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