Jean Bouchaud (1891 in Saint Herblain near

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– 1977 in Nantes) was a French painter. He was fascinated by travel since his childhood seeing ships from

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call at Nantes. Apart from his travels in Africa and elsewhere, he also received a bursary of the French colonial government in Indochina and traveled in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam during 1924–25, winning the

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. He was elected a member of the

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, académie des Beaux-Arts, in 1951, in the seat of

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, he was succeeded by

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in 1979.Grigor Kʻēōsēean Carzou, painter of a magic world 1982 "..repeat for they are so true: "Jean Bouchaud, who was seated under this dome for twenty-five years and whose career spanned more than seventy -five years, still waits for his biographer... There is no monograph on him and, as extraordinary ..."

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