Julien Le Roy
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Julien Le Roy (* 1686 in Tours ; † 1759 in Paris ) was a French watchmaker .
Life
At the age of thirteen, Le Roy built his first large clock . In the same year (1699) he moved to Paris to do an apprenticeship there. In 1713 he earned his master's title and in the following years he was made juré of the Paris Guild of Watchmakers. Then Le Roy became director of the Société des Arts de Genève and in 1739 he was appointed court watchmaker (French Horloger Ordinaire du Roi ) under Louis XV. appointed. Le Roy ran his workshop in the Rue de Harlay on the Île de la Cité in Paris until his death.
Examples of his clocks can be found in various museums around the world, e.g. B. in the Louvre and the Victoria and Albert Museum .
His son Pierre Le Roy continued the workshop, invented the adjustable ground screws on the balance wheel and also became a royal watchmaker. Another son, Julien-David Le Roy , was a classicist architect and archaeologist and author of Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce (1758), Histoire de la disposition et des formes que les chrétiens ont données à leurs temples (1764) and la Marine des anciens peuples expliquées, etc. (1777). The other two sons were Jean-Baptiste (from 1751 national geometer of the Paris Academy ) and Charles Le Roy (doctor), both of whom worked for the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert wrote an article.
Web links
- Short biography at the Getty Museum
- Example of work in the National Maritime Museum
- Pendule in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Picture gallery clockworks Le Roy, Julien in Watch-Wiki
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Roy, Julien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French watchmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1686 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tours |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1759 |
| Place of death | Paris |