Perret, Jean Jacques
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Nom
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Perret, Jean Jacques
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Date de naissance
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30 July 1730
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Date de mort
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2 April 1784
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Lieu de naissance
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Béziers
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Lieu de mort
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Paris
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 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 cutler, Etienne Perret and Jeanne Limoges, Perret continued in this trade. After his 'tour de France', which he began at the age of twelve, as a journeyman he sought employment in 1745 with the leading cutlers in Paris. There, seeking to specialise in the making of surgical instruments he followed anatomy courses at the Ecole de Médecine de Paris so as to understand what his instruments were intended to cut. During these years he encountered Claude Nicolas Le Cat, who hoped to make a surgeon of him, but he preferred to remain a manufacturer. In 1753 he was received into the corporation of Cutlers of Paris. Shortly afterwards he married and had one daughter. At its height he employed some twenty workmen. He invented a 'rasoir à rabot', described in his 'Pogonotomie'. Perret became Provost of the Paris cutlers and also invented an instrument to section the cornea in cataract operations. He improved steel polishing methods receiving an elogious. report from the Académie des sciences en 1769. He is reputed to have been the first to devise a safety razor (1).
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Notes biographiques
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1 Trade label sold by Bruno Sepulchre 19 June 2008; Christie's 11. 4.. 2002 lots 77, 78. NBG, vol 39, 642. Entry in Wikipedia.
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Bibliographie
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La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre à se raser soi-même, avec la manière de connoître toutes sortes de pierres propres à affiler tous les outils ou instrumens... suivi d’une observation importante sur la saignée. Paris, chez Dufour, 1769.
Dutch and German translations.
L'Art du Coutelier : première partie, Paris (Saillant & Nyon), 1771.
L'Art du Coutelier expert en instruments de chirurgie, 2e partie Paris (L. F. Delatour), 1772
Mémoire sur l'acier, dans lequel on traite des différentes qualités de ce métal, de la forge, du bon emploi, et de la trempe Paris (Dessaint) 1779.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Rue de la Tixanderie, Paris Trade label
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Identifiant
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318
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