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Scan 171
Chats on violins, 1905
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 147. See the scan on archive.org.
1seeming impossibilities. The firm, now Gand et Bernedel, still exists in Paris.
3Besides other masculine makers, more or less important, French luthiers can boast the unique honour of counting one of the fair sex among their number. This pioneer of lady violin-makers was wife of François Chanot's brother George, Florentine Demoliens. She was the sole author of three beautiful violins; the first, made in 1827, was shown at the Exhibition of French Industries, and was the admiration of artists and amateurs; the second was made to order for an English amateur 'cellist named Carleton; and the third, and most interesting, was made for and presented to Viotti's pupil, Monsieur J. B. Cartier, author of the violin school, L'Art du Violin. On this violin Monsieur Cartier had the happy thought of causing the history of the violin to be painted, and from this the fiddle was named "Violin Historique et Monumental." The design for the painting was made by the brothers Debret—one the architect of the Church of St Dennis, and the other Court painter to the Emperor of Brazil—assisted by their nephew.
5The difficult task of painting the design
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