History

Century

André Charles Caron

1697-1775
French clockmaker.
Clockmaker to Louis XV.
Father of French writer Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.
Father-in-law to Jean Antoine Lépine.
Associated with his son-in-law between 1756 and 1769.

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