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Bodeau, Léon (& Georges Fils)
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Waret-l'Évêque, 1867 - Huy, 1939
Activity
1898 ca - 1914 > Huy, Porte des Aveugles, 18<03-06>, 21<08 ca-10ca> or 15<10 ca-14>
Napoléon Joseph, known as Léon, ° 23.3.1867. No first name from 1903 until 1906, then "L." on CVs. Artist and painter, about 1906 to 1908. Backmark at no. 21, c. 1910, "L. Bodeau. Group portraits and enlargements. Framing. Same firm, G. Bodeau fils"; this was his son Georges Antoine Bodeau (° Huy, 14.5.1890). The Bodeaus specialized in miniature portraits in a formal frame. Also note that Léon's daughter "Alice" Josephine Lambertine Bodeau (° Huy, 30.8.1884) was recorded as a journeyman photographer living with her parents at the occasion of her wedding in Huy on 26.10.1912. In the interwar years, L. Bodeau - Jonet operated at no. 15.
1913 - 1914 Huy, Rue Entre Deux Portes, 27
Initially coexisted with Porte des Aveugles, 15; initial "L." on CV bearing both addresses, the same initial as listed in the 1913 directory. Subsequently, around the period of World War I, "G. Bodeau fils" alone at this address.
Napoléon Joseph, known as Léon, ° 23.3.1867. No first name from 1903 until 1906, then "L." on CVs. Artist and painter, about 1906 to 1908. Backmark at no. 21, c. 1910, "L. Bodeau. Group portraits and enlargements. Framing. Same firm, G. Bodeau fils"; this was his son Georges Antoine Bodeau (° Huy, 14.5.1890). The Bodeaus specialized in miniature portraits in a formal frame. Also note that Léon's daughter "Alice" Josephine Lambertine Bodeau (° Huy, 30.8.1884) was recorded as a journeyman photographer living with her parents at the occasion of her wedding in Huy on 26.10.1912. In the interwar years, L. Bodeau - Jonet operated at no. 15.
1913 - 1914 Huy, Rue Entre Deux Portes, 27
Initially coexisted with Porte des Aveugles, 15; initial "L." on CV bearing both addresses, the same initial as listed in the 1913 directory. Subsequently, around the period of World War I, "G. Bodeau fils" alone at this address.
Locations
1898 ca - 1914 > Huy, Porte des Aveugles, 18<03-06>, 21<08 ca-10ca> or 15<10 ca-14>
1913 - 1914 Huy, Rue Entre Deux Portes, 27
1913 - 1914 Huy, Rue Entre Deux Portes, 27
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#307
Status
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 27.6.2017 & 17.1.2019; SFJ revised 4.10.2020 partly based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 29.7.2023 & 20.8.2023; MD revised 26.10.2020 & 4.1.2024