Godot fils (fl. 1815-1853), Quai de l'Horloge 63, Paris.
Godot fils, opticien, located at Quai de i'Horloge 63 at the sign of Au Croissant, visited by Ira and Charles Young while buying apparatus for Dartmouth College in 1853. The label in the lid indicates that Godot was a supplier to the École Royale Polytechnique in Paris. The Almanach du Commerce de Paris 1827 lists both the father and the son; Godot père at Quai de l'Horloge 65 and Godot fils at Quai de l'Horloge 63. Barotte, Quai de i'Horloge 23, succeeded him around 1854.
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NOTES / REFERENCES
[1] Annuaire de l'Ecole royale polytechnique, Volume 1; Volume 1833, p. 72.
[2] Marcelin, Franck; Dictionnaire des fabricants français d'instruments de mesure du XVe au XIXe siècle, 2004.