Chevalier, Vincent Jacques-Louis
Contenu
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Nom
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Chevalier, Vincent Jacques-Louis
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Date de naissance
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1770
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Date de mort
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1841
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Lieu de naissance
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Paris
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Lieu de mort
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Paris
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Couverture temporelle
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1/2 19th century
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
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Biographie
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The son of Louis Vincent (qv), Jacques Louis Vincent worked with his father until 1792 when he was enrolled (conscripted ?), into the army. On his return in to Paris in 1803 he established his own business. Thanks to an encounter with Freminville, specialist producer of marine telescopes who had obtained a government contract for a hundred telescopes destined for use with in Chappe teglegraph stations, Chevalier was sub-contracted to make the eye-pieces and objectives, an order that placed his business on a sound footing. In 1818 he was the first optician to develope sunglasses, using smoked glass. The 24 August 1803 (6 Fructidor An 11) he married Marie Madeleine Wagner In 1823 at the request of the engineer Selligue (Alexandre François Gilles,1784-1845, 1), Chevalier and his son Charles developed a working example of his catadioptric and achromatic microscope, Subsequent disagreements led to the Chevalier name being suppressed in reports on the instrument made by the Académie des Sciences. The relation of the instrument. with that of Amici was however noted in the report on the 1827 exhibition when for this and a solar microscope, Chevalier received a silver medal, having only been honourably mentioned in 1823 (2).
His son Charles established an independent business in 1832. Camille Nachet was trained by, and worked for, Chevalier.
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Notes biographiques
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1 Archinard 1993.
2 de Thury & Migneron II, 381.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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21, Quai de l'Horloge Paris (Daumas, p.377).
21bis, Quai de l'Horloge Paris 1805 (Marcelin)
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67, Quai de l'Horloge Paris (1810, Marcelin)
69, Quai de l'Horloge Paris, 818 ( Daumas, p. 377, Almanach du Commerce). 'A la Providence' (to 1824, thereafter 'Au Microscope achromatique', Marcellin).
Tour de l'Horloge du Palais Paris Almanach du Commerce.
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Exposition année ; ville ; type ; récompense
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1834 Paris Industrie Nationale Silver medal (rappel)
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Identifiant
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811
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