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Lejeune, Benoît

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  1. A dictionary of violin makers (1896)

    Lejeune, Benoît. A maker of lutes, living in Lyons in 1557.

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    2. Le Jeune. A family of makers who for several generations worked in Paris. About 1819 there was Le Jeune (ainé) working at Cour du Commerce—label in a guitar: "Le Jeune, luthier, Cour du Commerce No. 19 faubg. St.-Germain, Paris"; and Lejeune (fils) working at Passage du Saumon; and Lejeune, rue du Marché-Palu; there was another member of the family living at 13, rue Boucherat, 1836-46; and finally one established in 1862 at rue Claude au Marais, who died about 1870.
    4. Lejeune, Benoît. A maker of lutes, living in Lyons in 1557.
    6. Le Jeune, François. Worked in Paris at the sign "à la Harpe royale" from about 1745; he was still living in 1785. His instruments are rare and of not particularly good work, the varnish is of poor quality. Two violins are dated 1747 and 1754, a five-stringed viol in the Paris Conservatoire Collection is dated 1755, another 1757, and an alto also 1757. Label: "François Le Jeune rue de la Juiverie, à Paris année 176—."

  2. A dictionary of violin makers (n.d.)

    Lejeune, Benoît. A maker of lutes, living in Lyons in 1557.

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    1. Lefèvre (Lefebvre), Toussaint Nicolas Germain. A maker in Paris in rue du Cimetière Saint-Jean about 1783-89.
    2. Legros de la Neuville, Nicolas. A French maker who exhibited in 1823 guitars, violins, and violoncellos.
    3. Le Jeune. A family of makers who for several generations worked in Paris. About 1819 there was Le Jeune (ainé) working at Cour du Commerce—label in a guitar: "Le Jeune, luthier, Cour du Commerce No. 19 faubg. St.-Germain, Paris"; and Lejeune (fils) working at Passage du Saumon; and Lejeune, rue du Marché-Palu; there was another member of the family living at 13, rue Boucherat, 1836-46; and finally one established in 1862 at rue Claude au Marais, who died about 1870.
    4. Lejeune, Benoît. A maker of lutes, living in Lyons in 1557.
    5. Le Jeune, François. Worked in Paris at the sign "à la Harpe royale" from about 1745; he was still living in 1785. His instruments are rare and of not particularly good work, the varnish is of poor quality. Two violins are dated 1747 and 1754, a five-stringed viol in the Paris Conservatoire Collection is dated 1755, another 1757, and an alto also 1757. Label: "François Le Jeune rue de la Juiverie, à Paris année 176—."
    6. Le Jeune, Jean Baptiste. Was a maker of harps as well as of violins in Paris, rue Montmartre au passage Charot, from about 1775; he, or a maker of this name, was still there in 1819.
    7. Le Jeune, Jean Charles. A maker of violins in Paris in 1776 at the sign "Au Dieu de l'Harmonie"; worked in the rue du Four Saint-Germain till 1783, and was succeeded by his nephew, Guillaume Martin, in 1822.

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Lejeune, Benoît. A maker of lutes, living in Lyons in 1557. reported1
Places and dates of work
Lejeune, Benoît. A maker of lutes, living in Lyons in 1557. reported1
Places and dates of work
Lejeune, Benoît. A maker of lutes, living in Lyons in 1557. reported1

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3 of the 3 lines here were read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words), not by a person looking at the page image. 1 of them rests on a section heading above a list of names, not on a trade word printed on its own line: “A DICTIONARY OF VIOLIN MAKERS.”.

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  1. Stainer, C. (Cecie), 1867-1937, A dictionary of violin makers (London: Novello, n.d.). archive.org, dictionaryofviol00stai. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviol00stai.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  2. Stainer, C. (Cecie), 1867-1937, A dictionary of violin makers (London: Novello, n.d.). archive.org, dictionaryofviol1899stai. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviol1899stai.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  3. Stainer, C. (Cecie), 1867-1937, A dictionary of violin makers (London ; New York: Novello, Ewer, 1896). archive.org, dictionaryofviol00stai_0. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviol00stai_0.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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