Julien Le Roy
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Julien Le Roy (1686-1759) was a major 18th-century Parisian clockmaker and watchmaker.
He was born in
His son Pierre Le Roy (1717–1785), a brilliant clock-maker in his own right, carried on the business until the early 1780s. Another son, Julien-David Le Roy (1724–1803), was a neo-classical architect and archaeologist, author of the Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece. His third son, Charles was a physician and Encyclopédiste, and his fourth, Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, a physicist and Encyclopédiste as well.
Examples of his work can be found in many major museums around the world, including the Louvre in Paris, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
In 1740 the recently founded Toulouse Observatory acquired a Julien le Roi clock for the observatory.[1]
See also
References
- Bibcode:1994JHA....25..199F. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
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