{"id":110868,"date":"2022-10-11T00:26:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derouvrayhorlogerie.com\/?p=110868"},"modified":"2024-03-30T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:25:05","slug":"lepaute-ou-henry-lepaute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derouvrayhorlogerie.com\/en\/2022\/10\/11\/lepaute-ou-henry-lepaute\/","title":{"rendered":"Lepaute or Henry-Lepaute ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
La famille Lepaute compte plus de 15 horlogers sur 6 g\u00e9n\u00e9rations. Beaucoup d\u2019entre eux s\u2019appellent Jean-quelque chose, ou portent des surnoms\u2026 il n\u2019est pas toujours simple de s\u2019y retrouver, de savoir \u00ab\u00a0qui est qui\u00a0\u00bb et qui a fait quoi. Qui plus est, le nom m\u00eame ne semble pas certain : Lepaute ou Henry-Lepaute ?\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/span>

Even on <\/span>the labels of the Louvre<\/span><\/a>, on peut lire une erreur assez r\u00e9pandue : pr\u00e9nom Henry, nom Lepaute. Or cette personne n’a tout simplement jamais exist\u00e9e. Je vais vous expliquer. <\/span><\/span><\/h5><\/div>

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The first two watchmakers of the family, Jacques Lepaute (knickname Bellefontaine) and his cousin Jean-Andr\u00e9 Lepaute, left their native Ardennes province to become watchmakers in Paris circa 1740. Their parents' names were Paute, and it must have been out of elegance that they slightly adjusted their last name by adding a short \"le\" in front of it. They must have thought it was more stylish, more suited to their new lifestyle in Paris.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jean-Andr\u00e9, who had become watchmaker officially appointed to King Louis XV, brought his brother Jean-Baptiste and several of his nephews to Paris to work with him. One of his nephews was named Pierre Henry.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Augustin Henry-Lepaute (1800-1885)<\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Augustin Henry, son of Pierre, born in 1800, a watchmaker by trade like his father, uncles and cousins, genuinely Lepaute by his grandmother and by his wife (he married his cousin Ana\u00efs Lepaute) would probably have preferred to be called Lepaute than Henry, since the name was prestigious and thus more marketable when being a watchmaker at the beginning of the XIX century, but in those remote times, patriarchy, the inheritance of the father's name, all that fuss and whatever, was complicated.\nAt the beginning of his career, he signed his clocks \"Henry neveu Lepaute\". In 1854, Augustin - being Napoleon III's official watchmaker - was authorised by the Emperor to officially add \"Lepaute\" to his surname. Thereon, the signature \"Henry-Lepaute\" appeared on the dials of the company's clocks. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

However, it happened that a few Augustin's creations were signed \"Lepaute\" only, such as this small <\/span>travel clock<\/span><\/a> qui a appartenu \u00e0 Napol\u00e9on III et qui appartient aujourd\u2019hui \u00e0 la collection royale d\u2019Angleterre. Au XX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, la plupart des horloges qui sortent des usines Henry-Lepaute portent \u00e9galement simplement le nom \u00ab Lepaute \u00bb sur le cadran.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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D\u00e9cret imp\u00e9rial autorisant Augustin Henry \u00e0 s\u2019appeler Henry-Lepaute<\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Augustin Henry-Lepaute a fait entrer la petite entreprise artisanale dans l\u2019\u00e8re de la modernit\u00e9, \u00e9quipant de r\u00e9gulateurs les gares des toutes nouvelles voies de chemins de fer en France. Il s\u2019associe \u00e9galement avec Augustin Fresnel pour mettre au point et fabriquer les lentilles de phares que l’on construisait alors sur toutes les c\u00f4tes du globe, mais ceci est une autre histoire\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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