Biography
Jules Louis Chadel (b. Clermont-Ferrand, France 1870 - d. Paris, 1941) studied sculpture at the Clermont-Ferrand School of Fine Arts and enrolled at the École des arts décoratifs, Paris in 1893 and worked as a stone sculptor on building sites to support himself. He entered the workshop of the jeweller Georges Le Turq and in 1904 Chadel was hired in 1904 by the jeweller Henry Vever, where he discovered Japanes art, and for whom he designed, among other things, the model of the sword of honor offered to Marshal Foch by the City of Paris in 1919. He was influenced by Prosper -Alphines Isaac and Yoshijiro Urushibara, with whom he trained in 1911. He was awared the Legion of Honour in 1927 but died prematurely after a car accident.
