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Blaise Bontems (15
March 1814 Le Ménil - 1893) was a
French specialist in the
manufacture of
automaton singing birds and the
first of a
dynasty of automaton...
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Roger Bontems [fr], took as
hostages a nurse,
Nicole Comte, and a
prison guard, Guy Girardot.
Buffet subsequently murdered them.
Buffet and
Bontems were...
- design. In 1893
Blaise Bontems died and the
company p****ed to his son
Charles Jules (b. 1848) and then to his
grandson Lucien Bontems who died in 1956. Subsequently...
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against the
death penalty began after Roger Bontems's execution on 28
November 1972.
Along with
Claude Buffet,
Bontems had
taken a
prison guard and a
nurse hostage...
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French automata attract collectors worldwide. The main
French makers were
Bontems, Lambert, Phalibois, Renou,
Roullet & Decamps,
Theroude and Vichy. Abstract...
- The last
death sentences by
guillotine at La Santé were
those of
Roger Bontems and
Claude Buffet. They were the
authors of an
escape attempt with hostage-taking...
- was a
French criminal who was
executed along with his accomplice,
Roger Bontems (1936–1972), on 28
November 1972 by
guillotine at La Santé
Prison and buried...
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personification of
leisure time
Alexandre Bontemps, 17th-century
courtier Blaise Bontems, 19th-century
designer of
automata Jean Bontemps,
privateer Napoléon Joseph...
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woman of colour, a
Moorish woman, who had been
placed there very
young by
Bontems,
valet of the King. She
received the
utmost care and attention, but never...
- was that of
September 1863 in Paris,
organized by the
automaton Blaise Bontems,
which however remains uncertain. We don't know what
happened to him afterwards;...
