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Chevillotte Frères (Shipping company, France)

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Presentation of Chevillotte Frères

Information on Chevillotte Frères can be found in the Cahiers de l'Iroise, a quarterly review published by the Société d'Etudes de Brest et du Léon, #166, April 1995. The issue is entitled Bretons dans la Grande Guerre (Bretons during the Great War) and includes some articles on the local shipping companies. The history of Chevillotte Frères is related in the two following papers:

  • France et Jean-Paul Chevillotte, La compagnie Chevillotte Frères dans la Grande Guerre, p. 41-46
  • Annie Henwood, Activités de la Société d'Etudes: février 1995, p. 77 (conference by J-P Chevillotte on the company, given on 14 February)

The Chevillotte family came from Burgundy to Brest at the end of the XVIIIth century. Jean Chevillotte was a merchant and manufacturer; he started shipping activity in 1841, with great success due to the creation of the commerce port of Brest. At the end of the XIXth century, Chevillotte Frères operated ten small ships, mostly built in Britain and named after places in Finistère.

The 1893 law favoured the sailing ships to the detriment of the steamships. In 1906, a new law attempted to boost the merchant navy; however, the big ships requi