Name Jean Walter | Died 1957, Dordives, France | |
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Jean Walter, (Montbeliard, 1883, Dordives – 1957), was a French architect who mainly worked for public housing, hospital architecture, and condominiums .
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Life
After his graduated in 1902 from the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, he participates in the First World War, which he ends after an injury as a military attache for Georges Clemenceau.
Having detected in 1925 a rich ore body of lead and zinc close to Oujda in Morocco, he founded in 1935 the "Societe des mines de Zellidja", which brings him wealth an notoriety. He married in 1941 Domenica Guillaume, the widow of art dealer Paul Guillaume.
He died suspiciously in 1957 after being hit by a car, leading some to speculate that his wife was responsible for his death.
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