endel's
"Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon," 1880.

[Footnote 1: Germany's yearly output of such instruments is enormous,
the principal seats of manufacture being Mark-Neukirchen (Saxony) and
Mittenwald (Bavaria).]

SECTION VIII
French Makers

ALDRIC, Paris, 1790-1844. Copied Stradivari with great skill. He was
also well known as a dealer in Cremonese instruments. He was one of
the earliest French makers who dealt with Luigi Tarisio, the famous
Italian connoisseur. He generally used a red varnish of good quality.

ALLAR, ----, Paris, 1788.

AMELOT, ----, Lorient; worked early in the present century. He used a
highly ornamented label.

AUBRY, ----, Paris, 1840. Succeeded his uncle Aldric, mentioned above.

AUGIERE, ----, Paris, about 1830, was established in the Rue Saint
Eustache, in partnership with Calot, and made some good instruments.
Augiere formerly worked in the shop of Clement of Paris.

BACHELIER, ----, Paris, 1788.

BASSOT, ----, Paris, 1788.

BERNARDEL, Auguste Sebastien Philippe, born at Mirecourt in 1802, was
in the workshop of Lupot, in Paris. The instruments of this maker are
excellently made, and the wood judiciously selected. He took his sons
into partnership in 1859 and retired from business in 1866. He died in
1870. His sons, Ernst Auguste and Gustave Adolphe, were in partnership
with Eugene Gand, and the firm was known as "Gand et Bernardel
freres."

BERTRAND, Nicolas, Paris, about 1700 to 1735, used varnish of a
superior kind. He made many of the Viols of the type common in Paris,
for some time after the Violin had been introduced; they were named
Dessus-de-Viole, Pardessus, Quinton, and Viole-haut-contre. His name
is often seen branded on the backs of his instruments, inside.

BOIVIN, Claude, about 1749, Paris. M. Chouquet, in his "Catalogue
Raisonne" of the instruments at the Paris Conservatoire, described a
Guitar by this maker, made for a daughter of Louis XV.

[Illustration: _Plate XIII_. ANTONIO STRADIVARI. 1702. ANTONIO
STRADIVARI. 1722. ANTONIO STRADIVARI. 1703.]

BOQUAY, Jacques, Paris, 1700-1730.

Jacques Boquay,
rue d'Argenteuil, a Paris, 1723.

One of the first of the old French school. He, with a few of his
contemporaries, inherited a good amount of the Italian character of
workmanship, introduced probably into France by Nicolas Renault.
Boquay, with others whose names are mentioned in this list of French
makers, used varnish closely allied to th