Chapotot, Jean
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Nom
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Chapotot, Jean
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Date de naissance
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29 November 1637
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Date de mort
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between 1721 and 1723
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Lieu de naissance
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Nevers (parish of St Jean)
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Couverture temporelle
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late 17th/early 18th century
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
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Biographie
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The son of a locksmith and gunmaker, Jacques Chapotot and his wife Anne Berger, Jean Chapotot (Jean le jeune since he had an elder brother, a locksmith, also called Jean) was the fourth of their six children. In August 1659 he was apprenticed for three years as an' alloué' to Roch Blondeau in Paris. After the end of this period he worked as a journeyman with Blondeau for eighteen months (1). Chapotot became free of the the Founders’ Corporation probably in 1664 or 1665 as he married Anne Billot(e) in Nevers on 26 April 1665. Chapotot seems to have then remained in Nevers, where two daughters were born Jehanne (d. 1669) and Anne (b. 1668). He returned to Paris between late August 1669 and September 1672 when his daughter Anne-Nicolle was born as would be four other children: Pierre François (c. 1670), Marie (1681-83), Catherine (1685-post 1710)Jeanne (c. 1687). Between 1676 and 1679 he made the mechanical parts of two binocular telescopes of Chérubin d'Orléans design, one for Louis XIV, the other for the Dauphin. Several other instruments by him can be dated to this period (2). He was Juré of the Founders' Corporation in 1684 and again in 1701-3. In 1680 he advertised a new telescopic sighting level (3). The following year Roch Bertand , a relative of Roch Blondeau, was turned over to him from Pierre Sevin. Since on three occasions between 1681 and 1683 he acted as councillor to Roch Blondeau's family his relations with them evidently remained close. In 1683 Arnoult George was apprenticed to him for five years, and the following year Nicolas Dupont was turned over to him, continuing after the end of his time first as an 'alloué' and thereafter perhaps as a journeyman. The same year Chapotot advertised his 'pentagone', an instruments for measuring accessible angles (4), and became juror ofhis corporation for two years. Instruments by Chapotot were taken by the officially sponsored by the crown Jesuit mission to Indial and China, and others were supplied to Cassini and La Hire for their work on the meridian (5).
Another new level shown to the Académie in 1686 and had considerable commercial success (6).In January Louis Seb ron was apprenticed for five years. Chapotot worked with the mathematician Joseph Sauveur (1653-1716) engraving scales for the Neptune François and realising his 'echomètre' (7). In 1694 a watch-form balance of his making was recommended by Ozanam (8) and it is clear that Chapotot continued to be active until late in his life. In 1707 he married his elderly daughter Anne Nicolle (34 years old) to another founder Jean Antoine Paffe (1663-1742) only for her to die in childbirth three years later. Between 1712 and 1720 Chapotot executed a number of instruments for the Chevalier de Louville who contested their quality (9). Little is thereafter know of the last years of Chapotot's life, althoug he seems to have continued working until his death in 1723.
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Notes biographiques
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1 Launay, Rocca & Blanchard 2024, 6-7, on which this account is largely based.
2. Daumas 104-5. Launay, Rocca & Blanchard 2024, 10-11.
3. Journal des Sçavans 17 juin 1680.
4. Journal des Sçavans 17 avril 1684)
5. Guiffrey 1887, ii 780, 1204
6. Launay, Rocca & Blanchard 2024, 14.
7. Ibid 14, Turner 1988.
8. Ozanam 1694, ii 7.
9. Launay, Rocca & Blanchard 2024, 16.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Quay de l'Horloge, Paris' A la Sphère'.
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Identifiant
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60
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