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72:, Pierre Husson (1675–1676), and the printer of intaglios, Chabrilland. However, his earliest prints by hand dated only from 1693, when, in the wake of his father, he provided the plates for the illustrations of the works being published in Lyon.
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Mercière, in 1698. At this shop, Jean-François engraved portraits of local notables as well as vignettes for the works that were being published in Lyon. He also engraved the titles and frontispieces of the books for the libraries of Lyon.
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Jean-François moved to Paris at the beginning of the 18th century, followed by his younger brother, François. However, for nearly ten years, the brothers stayed active in both cities. In Paris, Jean-François had had his shop at
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and a daughter, Agatha, who married the King's printer
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Jean-François died on 30 August 1738 at his home on rue Saint-Jacques in Paris. He was buried on the next day at the Church of Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné.
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On 18 October 1695 in Lyon, Jean-François married a
Parisian, Marie Barbery, the sister of the engraver Louis Barbery. They had seven children, including
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He had several presses and employed several
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learned and worked; in 1730, it had six presses for making the intaglios. But he also found the time to serve his parish church,
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The church and its cemetery no longer exist. They were razed in 1854 to make room for the expansion of the
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Dictionnaire des graveurs-éditeurs et marchands d'estampes à Lyon aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles et catalogue des pièces éditées
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Pierre de Sève, Baron de Fléchères, engraved and signed “J. f. Cars”, 1706, after Rigaud
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735:(Paris: Promodis / éditions du Cercle de la librairie, 1986), pages 73–74.
688:État de la question sur Jean-François Cars, graveur et marchand d'estampes
34:, France), was a French engraver, printer, publisher and printseller from
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