Bidault, Claude
Contenu
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Nom
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Bidault, Claude
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Date de mort
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1652
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Lieu de mort
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Paris
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Couverture temporelle
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1626-1652
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Biographie
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The son of Claude Bidault, clock-maker in Chartres, Bidault was himself a clock-maker as well as making mathematical instruments. Before 1626 he had obtained the place of ‘Valet de chambre - Horloger Ordinaire du Roi’ and at an unknown dated was granted premises in the Tuilleries Palace although these ‘n’était pas clair pour travailler’ (1). By his wife Marthe Boyer, Bidault was the father of Henri Auguste Bidault, named after his god-father Henri Auguste de Loménie, diplomat and secretary for the royal household and as such controller of places in the Galleries du Louvre. The following year1630, Loménie's wife Louise de Massès would be the god-mother of Bidault's second son (2). Bidault's sister Marie was married to Guillaume Ferrier (q.v.) (3). On 29 March 1628 Bidault was awarded a warrant for the next set of premises in the Louvre to become vacant because ‘Le Roy …informé de l’experience que Claude Bidault, l’un de ses orlogers s’est acquise à la fabrique de toutes sortes d’instrumens de mathématique…’. (4). During the 1630s Bidault received a comfortable salary from the crown - 300 livres in 1632, 600 livres from 1635-38, but it was not until 1642 that he obtained premises in the Louvre first in the. Grand Pavillon, when he left the Tuileries, whence he moved to the Galeries on 31 December 1642 (5). Associated with Girard Desargues who was god-father to his third son Claude in 1636, he was the distributor for Desargues’ important tract on perspective published in May 1636. Henri-Auguste Bidault succeeded to his father’s premises in the Louvre being confirmed in them in 1652 (6). An equinoctial dial by Claude Bidault is to be found in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (7).
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Notes biographiques
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1. Brevet de logement au Louvre granted to Claude & Henri Auguste Bidault, 31 December 1642.
2 Ruellet 137.
3. Jal 6886.
4. Archives de l'art français, i 1851, 206.
5. Ruellet 3.
6. Augarde 282; Guiffrey 69-70; Clément v, 400; Henri Auguste Bidault died c. 1693.
7. Turner (Gassendi), no. 153. A reduction compass (PC, ex Deburaux 2. 4. 2011 lot 121), is signed 'Bidauult au Pavillon des Tuilleries'.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Palais des Tuilleries Paris (pre 1642)
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Galerie du Louvre, Grand Pavillon Paris (1642-52).
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Identifiant
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1118
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