Dubois, Charles Adrien
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Nom
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Dubois, Charles Adrien
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Date de naissance
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1740
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Date de mort
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7 July 1777
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Lieu de mort
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Paris
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Couverture temporelle
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mid-18th century
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
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Biographie
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Dubois was free of the Founders' Corporation 23 September 1762 after having been successively apprenticed to M. Aubry (11 September 1757), Charles Desnos (23 October 1757) and Pierre Bernier (24 December 1758). He was attended in his last illness by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Doyen of the Faculté of Medicine at Paris. It was Dubois who realised instruments invented by Cassini de Thury, a register entitled '"Etat de ce que j'ai fait et livré à M. Cassini de Thury" sur lequel est inscrivait journellement les fournitures qu'il faisait au Sr De thury avec les notes des accomptes et paiements qu'il faisait' being found after his death. Alongside his principal activity, Dubois also engaged in the picture trade.1
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Notes biographiques
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1 Augarde 64, who ascribes the meridian made for the Marquis de Pange (sold Paris 5 March 1781) and the alt-azimuth quadrant made for the Marquis de Marigny (sold Paris 18 March 1782), to Dubois. Both instruments were designed by Cassini de Thury. For sever al other instruments by Dubois see Webster & Webster ii 53 and Marcelin; Daumas 346.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Rue de la Pelleterie, Paris 1763
Rue de la Vieille Draperie, Paris 1766
Quai de l'Horloge Paris, 1768
Sign 'Au Genie'.
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Identifiant
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1547
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