Notable People
Its most famous native sons are the architect Le Corbusier, born here as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in 1887 (his first independent project as an architect, the Villa Jeanneret-Perret, is open to the public), Louis Chevrolet, born in 1878, founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, and Blaise Cendrars, novelist and poet, born as Frédéric Louis Sauser in 1887.
Other notable people born in La Chaux-de-Fonds include Armand Borel, a mathematician, Louis Léopold Robert, a painter, born in 1794, Numa Droz, a politician, born in 1844, Paul Ditisheim, born in 1868, a famous watchmaker and inventor.
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