Jean-Charles Perrinet d'Orval

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jean-Charles Perrinet d'Orval (* 1707 in Sancerre , † May 5, 1782 in Paris ) was a French pyrotechnician , encyclopedist and recipient of grenier à sel de Sancerre .

Live and act

Jean-Charles Perrinet was the son of Jean Perrinet d'Orval (1670-1729) and his second wife Madeleine Annes († 1758). The half-siblings Jean Robert (1696-1696), Marianne (* 1697), Jean (* 1699) and Benjamin (* 1700) came from the father's first marriage to Suzanne Chamaillard (1658–1705). After the birth of Jean-Charles, the children Pierre (1710–1773), Anne, Madeleine-Marguerite and Etienne were added to the second marriage.

Alongside Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773), Perrinet d'Orval was the most important fireworker of his time. He also studied the military uses of explosives and gunpowder . His works were designed as practical manuals and instructions and demonstrate the high level of craftsmanship in fireworks in the early modern era.

In a court judgment of June 12, 1743, Jean-Charles Perrinet d'Orval was named as the beneficiary of the income ( Gabelle ) from the salt warehouse of Sancerre ( receveur du grenier à sel de Sancerre ) and in a dispute with Jean and Étienne Ravot, merchants from Orléans , sentenced to liquidate his income from the estates in the years 1743-1745.

From 1758 to 1762 he was a city councilor ( Capitoul ) in the administration of the city of Toulouse .

He edited the articles Feux d'artifice , Girandoles and Grenouillère for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .

Stinkpot and Ballista, Essay sur les feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre by Jean-Charles Perrinet d'Orva

Works (selection)

  • Essai sur les feux d'artifice. Paris, 1745
  • Traité des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre. Berne, 1750,
  • Essay sur les feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre. Chez Coustelier, 1745
  • Manuel de l'artificier. Chez C.-A. Jombert, Paris 1757

literature

  • Ferdinand Hoefer: Nouvelle Biographie générale. t. 39, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1862, p. 650.
  • Vincent Poupard: Histoire de Sancerre. 2 e ed, Bourges, 1838 pp. 192-193

Web links

Wikisource: Jean-Charles Perrinet d'Orval  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogy of Perrinet d'Orval
  2. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of 17 volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie (suite et fin). Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1990 Volume 8 Numéro 8 p. 109
  3. ↑ Family genealogy
  4. ↑ Pierre Rousseau (ed.): Journal encyclopédique ou universel dédié a Son. Alt. Sérénissimé Mgr. Le Duc de Bouillon. Fevrier 1778 pp. 445-446
  5. ↑ archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr, SOMMAIRE. P. 138, online (PDF; 752 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Perrinet d'Orval, Jean-Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pyrotechnician and encyclopedist
DATE OF BIRTH 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH Sancerre
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1782
Place of death Paris