Pierre-Marie-Joseph Desgoutte (February 26, 1874 – December 10, 1955), whose name is sometimes spelled Desgouttes, was a French industrialist, founder of the
Automobiles Cottin et Desgouttes company.
Life
Pierre Desgoutte was born at
Saint-Hilaire-sous-Charlieu
Saint-Hilaire-sous-Charlieu (, literally ''Saint-Hilaire under Charlieu'') is a commune in the Loire department in central France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Loire department
The following is a list of the 323 communes of the Lo ...
, in the
arrondissement of Roanne
The arrondissement of Roanne is located in the Loire department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. It is composed of 113 communes. Its population is 157,160 (2016), and its area is .
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in the
Loire, son of Jean Desgoutte and Marie-Philiberte Plasse.
He started working in the automobile area in 1896,
[Baudry de Saunier, ''Annual'', 1908, p. 308] first as a designer with
Audibert & Lavirotte, where he designed a number of models, then as an engineer with
Berliet.
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, ''The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile'', Vol. 1, p. 340
In 1897, he married a young girl from the
Savoie region, Joséphine Curial, with whom he had two sons, Georges (1898) and Gabriel (1900).
In 1904, he launched Desgouttes et Cie, which later became Automobiles Cottin et Desgouttes.
(A final "s" was added to the name Desgoutte for marketing reasons.) He personally designed three models: the 12, 16 and 40 hp.
The company was very successful. However, in 1923, Pierre Desgoutte retired from Cottin & Desgouttes, married Elisabeth Wilhelmine Caroline Nobile de Zenetti, of Austrian origin, last descendant of an old Venetian family, and settled in
Nice, where he bought a villa that had belonged to the painter
Jules Chéret.
Up to his death in
Nice in 1955, he continuously demonstrated interest in automobile issues, and he issued patents concerning road and rail transportation shortly before he died.
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1874 births
1955 deaths
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