César Boutteville
César Boutteville was a French–Vietnamese chess master.
The son of a French father and a Vietnamese mother, Cesar Boutteville was born in Thin-Hao, nowadays part of Hanoi's urban district Dong Da. He moved with his family to France in 1929.
He was a six-time winner of both the French Chess Championship and the Paris City Chess Championship.
Boutteville represented France seven times in Chess Olympiads from 1956 to 1968. He also played in friendly matches against Switzerland, Australia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.
He took third at Paris 1962/63, shared 10th at Bordeaux, and tied for eighth at Le Havre 1966.
He was still playing chess in his nineties. He died in his home in Versailles on 21 May 2015.
