Paris · about 1735
Historical maker
Named in 3 books.
What the books printed
The violin, Hart, George. London, Dulau and co. [etc.], 1884. Scan 297.
Champion, René, Paris, about 1735. His instruments are well made, and the varnish is of good quality.
The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, Hart, George. London, Dulau, 1887. Scan 228.
CHAMPION, René, Paris, about 1735. His instruments are well made, and the varnish is of good quality.
The violin, Hart, George. London: Dulau, 1909. Page 234, scan 294. Held as more than one scan.
CHAMPION, René, Paris, about 1735. His instruments are well made, and the varnish is of good quality.
- Entries from 3 books stand under this name, and we are not sure they mean the same person. That is on hold until somebody settles it.
Same name
Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say.
Same town, same time
267 other Paris makers have a year in the 1700s. A few of them:
- 1734 to 1740 Gavinies, F.
- 1735 to 1741 Castagneri, Andrea
- 1735 Champion, R.
- 1735 to 1766 Guersan, L.
- 1735 to 1788 Salamon, J. B. D.
- died 1736 Boquay, Jacques