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Pierre Jaquet-DrozAge: 69 years17211790

Name
Pierre Jaquet-Droz
Birth July 28, 1721 34 32
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Latitude: N47.1333 Longitude: E6.85

Birth July 28, 1721 34 32
Birth of a sisterMarie Jaquet-Droz
1724 (Age 2 years)

Death of a sisterMarie Jaquet-Droz
1726 (Age 4 years)

Birth of a brotherIsaac Droz du Locle
about 1730 (Age 8 years)

Education
Theologie (theology) College of Erasmus, studied with Jean & Daniel Bernoulli
between 1738 and 1740 (Age 16 years)
Death of a maternal grandfatherDaniel Droz
after 1738 (Age 16 years)

Death of a paternal grandmotherMadelaine Amey-Droz
May 26, 1740 (Age 18 years)

Death of a sisterSuzanne-Marie Jaquet-Droz
1741 (Age 19 years)

Birth of a son
#1
Jean-Frédéric Leschot
1746 (Age 24 years)
Occupation
started watch-making, made automatons shown in Neuchatel
between 1738 and 1747 (Age 16 years)
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Latitude: N47.1333 Longitude: E6.85

Location
Took Jean-Frederic Leschot (le Scot?) 1746-1824 as apprentice
between 1740 and 1747 (Age 18 years)
Death of a motherMarie Madelaine Droz de sur le Pont
June 30, 1749 (Age 27 years)

MarriageMarie-Anne Sandoz-GendreView this family
October 25, 1750 (Age 29 years)
Zürich, Switzerland
Latitude: N47.4176 Longitude: E8.6538

Birth of a daughter
#2
Julie Jaquet-Droz
July 25, 1751 (Age 29 years)

Birth of a son
#3
Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz
October 13, 1752 (Age 31 years)
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Latitude: N47.1333 Longitude: E6.85

Occupation
shepherd's clock
1753 (Age 31 years)

Travel August 1753 (Age 32 years)
Birth of a daughter
#4
Charlotte Jaquet-Droz
October 25, 1755 (Age 34 years)
Zürich, Switzerland
Latitude: N47.4176 Longitude: E8.6538

Death of a wifeMarie-Anne Sandoz-Gendre
December 25, 1755 (Age 34 years)
Zürich, Switzerland
Latitude: N47.4176 Longitude: E8.6538

Death of a daughterCharlotte Jaquet-Droz
February 3, 1756 (Age 34 years)

Immigration 1758 (Age 36 years)
Madrid, Spain
Latitude: N40.5289 Longitude: W3.6827

Emigration between April 4, 1758 and January 23, 1759 (Age 36 years)
Madrid, Spain
Latitude: N40.5289 Longitude: W3.6827

Travel between 1758 and 1759 (Age 36 years)

Travel 1759 (Age 37 years)
Death of a fatherAbraham Jaquet-Droz
December 24, 1767 (Age 46 years)

Occupation
Created pianist. writer, and sketcher, exhibited
1774 (Age 52 years)

WorkedWith between 1760 and 1782 (Age 38 years)

Marriage of a childHenri-Louis Jaquet-DrozLouise-Suzanne BenelleView this family
1787 (Age 65 years)

WorkedWith between 1782 and 1814 (Age 60 years)
Death November 21, 1790 (Age 69 years)
WorkedWith 1800 (9 years after death)

Source 1951 (160 years after death)
Alfred W. Generation
Alfred Chapuis, La Horlogerie Neuchatelois; Manuel Emch, Jaquet Droz; Assouline, 2009.
1983 (192 years after death)

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: October 28, 1711
10 years
himself
9 years
younger brother
-13 years
elder sister
3 years
elder sister
-3 years
elder sister
11 years
younger sister
Family with Marie-Anne Sandoz-Gendre - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: October 25, 1750Zürich, Switzerland
9 months
daughter
15 months
son
Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz
Birth: October 13, 1752 31 21La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Death: during sales? tripNovember 15, 1791Naples, Italy
3 years
daughter
Charlotte Jaquet-Droz
Birth: Sur le Pont, La Chaux-de-Fonds, SwitzerlandOctober 25, 1755 34 24Zürich, Switzerland
Death: Sur le Pont, La Chaux-de-Fonds, SwitzerlandFebruary 3, 1756
-9 years
son
Jean-Frédéric Leschot
Birth: adopted after the death of his mother and remarriage of the father1746 24 15sur le pont, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Death: 1824

Shared note

Material from Andre Tissot: Voyage de Pierre Jaquet-Droz a la Cour du Roi d'Espangne, 1758-1759; D'apres le Journal d'Abraham Louis Sandoz, son Beau-pere. Chahiers de'l Institut Neuchatelois, a la Baconniere, 1982.

Also see 1. F. Fassler, S. Guye, D. Droz: Pieree Jaquet-Droz et son Temps; Comite des Fetes du 250eme anniversaire de la Naissance de Pierre Jaquet Droz (1721-1790). La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, 1971.

  1. Charles Perregaux and F.-Louis Perrot: Les Jaquet-Droz et Leschot; Neuchatel, Attinger freres, 1916.

  2. Charles Thomas: Chronique de la Communaute de La Chaux-de-Fonds sous la Domination du Roi de Prusse, 1707-1848; Le Griffon, Neuchatel, 1970.