André Borie (died 1971) was a French
civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...
who was involved in many public construction projects of the French state and helped to build part of the
Mont Blanc tunnel
The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under the Mont Blanc mountain in the Alps. It links Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France with Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy, via the French Route Nationale 205 and the Italian T ...
. He was president of the
Entrepreneurs de travaux publics who awarded a medal in his honour. He is said to have been an art collector and to have left his paintings to his daughter
Andrée Borie.
See also
*
Giulano Ruffini
Giulano Ruffini (born 1945) is a French art collector who has discovered a number of paintings that have been authenticated as being by old masters but some of which are suspected to be forgeries.
Investigation started in 2014.
Painter Lino Fron ...
References
1971 deaths
French civil engineers
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Year of birth missing
French businesspeople
{{France-engineer-stub