Abel François Nicolas Caroillon de Vandeul

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Abel François Nicolas Caroillon de Vandeul (born January 29, 1746 in Langres - † January 18, 1813 in Paris ) was a French industrialist, maître de forges and husband of Denis Diderot's only surviving daughter , née Marie-Angélique Diderot (* 2 September 1753 - December 5, 1824).

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He was the son of Nicolas Caroillon (1708–1766), a tobacco trader , from Langres, and his wife, born Simone La Salette (1716–1788). Simone La Salette was a childhood sweetheart of Denis Diderot.

Caroillon de Vandeul married on September 9, 1772 and lived with his wife Marie-Angélique Diderot on Rue de Bourbon in Paris. The couple acquired the Abbaye d'Auberive after the French Revolution . The couple had a son who reached adulthood. Denis-Simon Caroillon de Vandeul (1775–1850) also worked in the field of iron production, maître de forge and politically active.

The son Denis-Simon Caroillon de Vandeul married Eugénie Cardon (1794-1875) in 1811. Her daughter Marie-Angélique Wilhelmine Caroillon de Vandeul (1813-1900) was married to Charles Louis baron Le Vavasseur († 1894), the great-grandfather of Jacques Le Vavasseur , on May 5, 1834 .

In 1796 he inherited the estate of Château de Prauthoy from his brother .

In 1798 he became the new owner of the glass factory in Rouelles ( Champagne-Ardenne region ), which previously belonged to the encyclopedist Antoine Allut . Glass bottles and window glass were produced. The company existed until 1840.

literature

  • Jean Massiet du Biest: Mr de Vandeul, gendre de Diderot, capitaine d'industrie, 1746–1813. Etudes langroises d'art et d'histoire, Société historique et archéologique, Langres 1967.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ French name Maître de forges for an entrepreneur or manufacturer of iron and iron goods.
  2. ↑ Biography La vie de Denis Diderot (French: PDF; 3.4 MB) Hautemarne Archive.
  3. ↑ the French historical name is entreposeur des tabacs
  4. ↑ According to other information, the year of birth was 1713.
  5. ↑ Family genealogy
  6. ^ Lionel Gallois: Claude et Abel Gautier: hommes d'affaires langrois des Caroillon de Vandeul. In: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. ISSN  0769-0886 , October 1993, No. 15, pp. 113-140.
  7. ^ Journal de Paris . April 2, 1784, p. 414, Rubrique Morts.
  8. ^ Genealogy of the Caroillon de Vandeul family
  9. ↑ Château de Prauthoy ( Memento of May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Caroillon de Vandeul, Abel François Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Langres
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1813
Place of death Paris