Henri Chapron was a famous French coachbuilder established in Levallois-Perret. Levallois-Perret is a city in France, in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, on the right bank of the Seine. ...
It most famous production is the DS convertible, but its activity indeed spans over more than fifty years. The DS (also known as Déesse, or Goddess, after the punning initials in French) was a model of Citroën automobile manufactured and sold between 1955 and 1975. ...
Chapron began his career developing custom body designs for French luxury vehicles, like Talbot, Delage, and Delahaye, in the 1940s.
These gigantic 4 door convertibles were first used for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to France and continued in use through the inauguration of Jacques Chirac in 1995.
HenriChapron died in 1978, and the company itself survived for some time under the direction of his widow, producing some luxury versions of the Citroën CX.
As France ceased building vehicles of this type in the 1950s, Chapron switched his attention to the recently launched Citroën DS with its revolutionary aerodynamic design and radical hydrolic suspension.
In 1968, Chapron made a special extended DS Presidential model for the government of Charles de Gaulle.
Then in 1972, Chapron delivered two SM Presidential models to the government of Georges Pompidou.
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