Menard, Guillaume III
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Nom
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Menard, Guillaume III
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Date de naissance
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8 August 1685
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Date de mort
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5 February 1749
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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 18th century
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
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Biographie
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In 1702, Guillaume III, the second son of Guillaume II, entered into a partnership with his elder brother Louis who received all their father's tools as part of the contract. In 1710 he was still living with Louis and his wife, and in that year he donated all his property to his brother. In 1712 he marrried Marguerite Dominois, the recent widow of another mirror-maker Gatien Hutrel whose shop and sign Guillaume III now took over. He was a juror of the corporation in 1726 as he was again in 1744 the year in which his wife died.
A skilful optician, some instruments have survived. A box microscope dated 1739 by him is known (1), and in 1743 he wrote an unpublished description of a drum microscope with sub-stage mirror which he claimed to have ‘inventé’ (2).
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Notes biographiques
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1. Golup Collection, University of California at Berkeley, ex Nachet Collection (Catalogue N° 32). It is described on a label on the inner face of the door as 'Microscope Universel fait et beaucoup augmenté par Guillaume Menard… (see Stenger 19).
2. See bibliography. For further biographical details see Blanchard & Launay, 6-7.
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Bibliographie
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Description Et usage d’un nouveau microscope universel très simple et très commode en les usages fait et inventé par Guillaume Menard Marchand Miroitier pour les faits de l’Optique’, 1743. Unpublished ms in a private collection.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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1732-39: 'Au Bon Pasteur', Quay de l'Horloge du Palais Paris ('Description…).
1749: Rue St Anne, Paris (habitation only)
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Identifiant
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2744
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