André Xavier Chapelon was born in Saint-Paul-en-Cornillon, Loire, France on 26 October 1892, and was descended from an English immigrant, one of many who came to France in the 19th Century to teach steel production methods.
André Xavier Chapelon was born in Saint-Paul-en-Cornillon, Loire, France on 26 October 1892. According to family relatives, his great-grandfather James Jackson immigrated to France from England in 1812, one of many who came to France in the 17th Century to teach steel production methods.