Étienne Vatelot

Biography

Étienne Vatelot (13 November 1925 – 13 July 2013) was a French luthier. Étienne Vatelot is the son of luthier Marcel Vatelot, who opened his workshop in 1909, and Jehane Lauxerrois. He attended high school at the Institution Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix. From 1942, he learned the craft of luthier in the workshop of his father, located at 11 bis rue Portalis in Paris. He perfected his skills in Mirecourt with luthier Amédée-Dominique Dieudonné, in Paris in the studio of Victor Quenoil, then in New...