LEPAUTE (Jean-André). Copy of a Letter written... - Lot 44 - Hôtel des ventes d'Évreux

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LEPAUTE (Jean-André). Copy of a Letter written... - Lot 44 - Hôtel des ventes d'Évreux
LEPAUTE (Jean-André). Copy of a Letter written to Monseigneur le Duc de ***, by Sieur Lepaute, Horloger du Roy, at the Palais du Luxembourg; used for the justification of the said Sieur Lepaute, against different imputations of Sieur le Roi, eldest son of Sieur Jullien le Roi, Horloger. sl, sn, 1752. In-4 paperback of 9 pp. without cover. Rare (one copy listed in the public collection at the BNF by OCLC). Jean-André Lepaute (1720-1789) was one of the greatest watchmakers of the Age of Enlightenment, who, with his brother, was at the origin of the realization of several monumental public clocks and of a large number of inventions and major innovations in the field. In this capacity, he became the King's official watchmaker, as well as that of the Duke of Bourbon (to whom this letter is probably addressed) and the Count of Artois, and received orders from crowned heads and the most illustrious figures of the court. He was also involved in several paternity suits for the invention of clocks or systems with other watchmakers such as his associate Pierre Le Roy (also the King's watchmaker like his father Julien Le Roy) inventor of the marine chronometer, or the famous Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, son of a watchmaker, who began his career working in his father's workshop and invented a new escapement mechanism.
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