François Beaudouin
François Beaudouin , born on February 9th, 1929, is regarded as the father of the named discipline " nautical archeology fluviale".
In 1968, under the impulse of Louise Weiss, it bases the Musée of the Holy-Honorine shipping of Conflans, first museum general practitioner on this subject in France. He will be the conservative until his retirement in 1994. That does not prevent it from continuing its research very actively.
The step scientific of François Beaudouin, old marine and disciple of Andre Leroi-Gourhan, takes again the great principles of its Master, namely an approach based on the experimental Archéologie: to reconstitute the ancestral techniques of construction of boats, he proposes to reproduce their gestures with tools of the time.
Simultaneously with several studies and monographs devoted to various inland waterway vessels, François Beaudouin attacked the full-scale reconstitution of old boats. Montjeannaise , launched in 1989, is a barge of the Loire beginning of the XIXe century reconstituted with identical, according to various documents of the time. It is helped in its teaching step by a talent of completely remarkable draftsman who led to a traditional exposition with his artistic work with the Musée of the Navy in 1996.
More and more, François Beaudouin leans on older boats, and in particular the dugouts monoxyles and the medieval scute.
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