André Lévêque

André Marcel Lévêque (October 23 1896 - March 1 1930) was a French engineer, famous for his work on heat transfer.

Personal life

At Béthune, on July 24, 1925, André Lévêque married Clotilde Marie Elise Foret who was born at Carvin on February 19, 1902. A daughter seems to have been born in 1925; unfortunately she died in 1928 at the age of three.

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July 24 - 1925 - Carvin - 1902 - 1928

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In 1929, his son, Jean André Eugène Lévêque, was born. Twenty years later, in 1949, the younger Lévêque was admitted to the Ecole polytechnique, the polytechnic that André Lévêque attended.

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1929 - 1949

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André Lévêque died on March 1 1930 from tuberculosis at Pau, in a suburb called Bizanos. This place, close to the Pyrenees, has been recommended to him by the doctors because of the better air quality. He was buried at Beauvais, where he was born, only 33 years and 4 months before.

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March 1 - 1930 - Tuberculosis - Pau - Bizanos - Pyrenees - Beauvais

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NOTE: The biographical data obtained from the Mairies de Beauvais(Oise) et de Béthune (Pas de Calais), from the École des Mines, and the École Polytechnique, Paris and especially from André Lévêques son, M. Jean Lévêque, Boulogne/Seine, are gratefully acknowledged.

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Beauvais - Béthune - École des Mines - École Polytechnique

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